platitudinized

verb

past tense of platitudinize
as in preached

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  1. preached
  2. evangelized
  3. lectured
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  • The easy explanation would be the president’s enmity toward Pope Leo XIV, who has preached a gospel of kindness toward the undocumented and spoken out against the quagmire in Iran.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Nonmaterialism was the sort of wishful nonsense preached by those who weren’t in any real danger of going hungry.
    — Madhuri Vijay, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of preached
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  • Catholics began to resurface around 1837 with another wave of European migrants who evangelized in the streets and in the name of the poor and immigrants.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • As the genre eventually called alt-country calcified in Souled American’s wake, luminaries like John Darnielle, Will Oldham, and Tweedy himself all evangelized about the Chicago group without ever replicating their sound.
    — Zach Schonfeld, Pitchfork, 17 Apr. 2026
Definition of evangelized
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  • None of that made it into the discussion before Wilder lectured the girls about how to think.
    — Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Parsipur taught at Brown University in the early 2000s and lectured internationally throughout the ensuing decades.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 13 July 2026
Definition of lectured
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“Platitudinized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/platitudinized. Accessed 21 Aug. 2026.

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