as in to evangelize
to deliver a sermon
a minister who loves to preach
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It’s set in a small-town community in upstate New York, where the long-gray-haired and bearded Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin) is the contempo version of a fire-and-brimstone cult leader, preaching fury in the form of piety.
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Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
Vrabel preached winning the second half heading into Sunday’s game.
—Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
And, without needing to preach, Preparation for the Next Life delineates the limits of immigrants reaching for solidarity from white Americans who may be experiencing their own hardships, but who are never going to be in danger of being deported.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
The team has preached its focus on a clean slate ahead of their quest for a second straight championship.
—Kevin McCormick, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
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Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
Vrabel preached winning the second half heading into Sunday’s game.
—Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
And, without needing to preach, Preparation for the Next Life delineates the limits of immigrants reaching for solidarity from white Americans who may be experiencing their own hardships, but who are never going to be in danger of being deported.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
The team has preached its focus on a clean slate ahead of their quest for a second straight championship.
—Kevin McCormick, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for preach
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Is the cause of Wings something that really needs to be … evangelized?—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
4 Sep. 2025
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Celebrities evangelize companies when something fixes a personal frustration.—
Lilian Raji,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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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 Sep. 2025.
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