exhortations

plural of exhortation

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Recent Examples of exhortations Their exhortations to get rich quick, drive fast cars and aggressively treat women as property are followed by millions of people online. Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 22 July 2026 Advertisement While Pulisic is no recluse—he’ll go to an occasional nice dinner with friends—exhortations to step out more go mostly unheeded. Sean Gregory, Time, 7 May 2026 Then the speakers’ exhortations to excellence would build in emotional intensity until women began to weep and the meeting erupted in spontaneous pledges to set new personal bests. Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026 Passages range from the creation of the world to bloody battles and apocalyptic destruction, from exhortations to love of God, neighbor and the needy to passages telling of Jesus' life, death and resurrection. ABC News, 21 Apr. 2026 But also as promised, the show was all about joy, optimism and self-belief, and if her monologues occasionally veered into self-care exhortations, that was perfectly on brand as well. Jem Aswad, Variety, 17 Apr. 2026 Caminero’s sprint included several mid-stride hops and fist pumps and exhortations to the crowd. Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026 Trump’s exhortations to the oil industry dovetail with a broader push to address cost-of-living concerns weighing heavily on Republicans’ bid to maintain control of Congress in November’s midterm elections. Bloomberg Wire, Dallas Morning News, 10 Jan. 2026 In Queen Mother, Farmer takes a clear-eyed look at Moore’s foibles, noting her absenteeism during her son’s formative years, her embrace of patriarchal hierarchy in Black communities, and her exhortations for Black women to embrace polygyny to facilitate nation building. Dara T. Mathis, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for exhortations
Noun
  • In this regard, recommendations of top Wall Street analysts can help shortlist stocks with robust growth opportunities.
    TipRanks.com, CNBC, 26 July 2026
  • The task force’s job is to make recommendations to the Board of County Commissioners, who ultimately have final say over what, if anything, is funded.
    Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2026
Noun
  • Rodríguez has rejected suggestions that authorities understated the disaster, saying the government releases only casualty figures that have been fully verified and would not speculate about the final toll.
    Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 23 July 2026
  • In these cases, models can make confident but wrong suggestions that can only be solved by cleaning up the data.
    Saurabh Gupta, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026

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“Exhortations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exhortations. Accessed 28 Jul. 2026.

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