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Recent Examples of moralize
Dissecting private reproductive choices through a collective lens, as the authors do, comes with a high risk of moralizing fertility.
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Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
People who moralize intrinsic motivation often expect it from everyone else.
—Mijeong Kwon, The Conversation, 25 Nov. 2025
The good guy, the bad guy, the place to sit and reside, to feel right or wrong or righteous or moralized and she's left us quite naked with an incredibly complex detailed topic.
—H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Oct. 2025
One Battle After Another is not sappy or moralizing in that sentiment.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2025
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Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
People who moralize intrinsic motivation often expect it from everyone else.
—Mijeong Kwon, The Conversation, 25 Nov. 2025
The good guy, the bad guy, the place to sit and reside, to feel right or wrong or righteous or moralized and she's left us quite naked with an incredibly complex detailed topic.
—H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Oct. 2025
One Battle After Another is not sappy or moralizing in that sentiment.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for moralize
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Trading Alvarez would also run counter to everything Crane has preached about a perennial championship window.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
25 May 2026
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The gunmen left behind a 75-page manifesto that preached hate, anti-Islam ideology, antisemitism and promoted violence.—
Karen Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
23 May 2026
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Bad teams are given mechanisms to recover, not lectures about bootstraps.—
Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 May 2026
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One can scarcely imagine Davis agreeing to a management interview with Forbes or lecturing executives about organizational leadership.—
Bill Fischer,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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Priests could not catechize children, bring the sacraments to the sick, or do pastoral work outside the local churchyard.—
George Weigel,
WSJ,
17 Mar. 2022
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“Moralize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moralize. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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