missionizes

verb

present tense third-person singular of missionize
as in influences

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  1. influences
  2. proselytizes
  3. converts
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  • But this year that panel, which influences state and insurance vaccine policies, is caught in a court battle and the CDC hasn't updated its flu advice.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Wen said the financial infrastructure supporting that business therefore influences its ability to scale.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2026
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  • Opponents have argued that hanging the Ten Commandments in classrooms proselytizes to students and amounts to religious indoctrination by the government.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 21 Apr. 2026
Definition of proselytizes
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  • The system generates electrical power and converts it into a highly concentrated beam.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Denying the incident or moving to an offensive posture converts a complaint about a product into a statement about character—and that’s much harder to walk back.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
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“Missionizes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/missionizes. Accessed 7 Oct. 2026.

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