as in to urge
to try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action
the speaker exhorted the graduating students to go forth and try to make a difference in the world
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The Senate cleared the legislation Friday in a mostly party line 54-46 vote, with 10 Senate Democrats helping the bill advance to passage despite opposition from within their party -- most vocally from colleagues in the House, who exhorted them to reject the bill out of hand.
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Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 16 Mar. 2025
In 2015, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany famously exhorted her country’s citizens to welcome waves of refugees from the Middle East.
—Robert Petkoff Krish Seenivasan Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
Others would exhort that the end result is what counts, not how the inner machinations work.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
The Senate cleared the legislation Friday in a mostly party line 54-46 vote, with 10 Senate Democrats helping the bill advance to passage despite opposition from within their party -- most vocally from colleagues in the House, who exhorted them to reject the bill out of hand.
—Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 16 Mar. 2025
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Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 16 Mar. 2025
In 2015, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany famously exhorted her country’s citizens to welcome waves of refugees from the Middle East.
—Robert Petkoff Krish Seenivasan Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
Others would exhort that the end result is what counts, not how the inner machinations work.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
The Senate cleared the legislation Friday in a mostly party line 54-46 vote, with 10 Senate Democrats helping the bill advance to passage despite opposition from within their party -- most vocally from colleagues in the House, who exhorted them to reject the bill out of hand.
—Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 16 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exhort
Verb
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Trump met personally with the GOP conference that morning, urging them to stop pushing for more changes and get behind the bill.—
Riley Beggin,
USA Today,
23 May 2025
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Since May 2024, Jupiter has moved through your zone of intimacy, depth, and mutual resources, urging you to be more discerning about emotional risk.—
Colin Bedell,
Them.,
22 May 2025
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There is no fee to nominate and self-nominations are encouraged.—
Post-Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
26 May 2025
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Inner reflection is encouraged with Mercury in Gemini.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
25 May 2025
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