as in to evangelize
to deliver a sermon
a minister who loves to preach
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Recent Examples of preach
Raphael’s great image of Paul preaching in Athens, arms outstretched, crowd rapt, could be the Chairman on tour in Greece.
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Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
The Vatican said that the site includes the ruins of the basilica where Augustine preached and the adjoining baptistry.
—ABC News, 13 Apr. 2026
Bowness had been preaching calm and levity, hoping to keep the group loose and believing the chances his players were creating would eventually give way to some goals.
—Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2026
On Sundays, O’Neal’s father preached hope from the pulpit, stories of his family intertwined with morals and truths and parables.
—Courtney Crowder, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026
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Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
The Vatican said that the site includes the ruins of the basilica where Augustine preached and the adjoining baptistry.
—ABC News, 13 Apr. 2026
Bowness had been preaching calm and levity, hoping to keep the group loose and believing the chances his players were creating would eventually give way to some goals.
—Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2026
On Sundays, O’Neal’s father preached hope from the pulpit, stories of his family intertwined with morals and truths and parables.
—Courtney Crowder, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for preach
Verb
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That baptism marked a turning point, after which Ivey became increasingly focused on using his platform to evangelize.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Mar. 2026
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The actor and comedian, who was married to Katy Perry, has reinvented himself as a Christian convert who evangelizes about free speech and free thinking in MAGA America.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
30 Mar. 2026
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Rahill is the master of male-loneliness epidemic comedy, and his best work absorbs the collective unconscious of the internet’s aimless single dudes who sermonize to their phones from front seats of cars in dead mall parking lots, then spits it back out as a ridiculous reflection.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
15 Sep. 2025
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Raised in the segregated south, he was steeped in the tradition of Confederate preachers who sermonized to their flocks in the CSA on the holiness of white supremacy and characterized the Christian god as inherently racist.—
Jared Yates Sexton,
The New Republic,
25 Mar. 2020
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“Preach.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preach. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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