as in urges
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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Recent Examples of exhorts
In Paris, signage exhorts Métro riders to hydrate regularly, stay attentive to those who are most vulnerable, et cetera.
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Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
27 June 2026
On her deathbed, Mary exhorts her son to take advantage of this situation in grotesquely self-serving terms at odds with the movie’s overall soak-the-rich ethos.
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Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Feb. 2026
Carol, a reclusive and disgruntled bestselling romantasy author, exhorts her reticent audience of five immune English speakers to reclaim human agency against the milquetoast, obsequious blob and join her in a quest to reverse the happiness apocalypse.
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Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
8 Nov. 2025
There is also a growing rhetoric that exhorts the virtues of blue-collar labor.
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Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Oct. 2025
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
27 June 2026
On her deathbed, Mary exhorts her son to take advantage of this situation in grotesquely self-serving terms at odds with the movie’s overall soak-the-rich ethos.
—
Peter Tonguette,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Feb. 2026
Carol, a reclusive and disgruntled bestselling romantasy author, exhorts her reticent audience of five immune English speakers to reclaim human agency against the milquetoast, obsequious blob and join her in a quest to reverse the happiness apocalypse.
—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
8 Nov. 2025
There is also a growing rhetoric that exhorts the virtues of blue-collar labor.
—
Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for exhorts
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The designer also urges homeowners to consider flourishes such as tassels, pom-poms, and ribbons to put this vibrant shade to work in the subtlest ways.
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The National Weather Service urges those in Guam to begin preparing their homes, listen for possible warnings and be ready to evacuate if necessary.
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Valentine also testified that the FDA encourages infant formula companies to send in all adverse event reports and that nothing prevented Mead Johnson from doing so.
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Kalibrate’s program, according to the lawsuit, encourages gas stations to upload private price data.
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“Exhorts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exhorts. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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