as in to evangelize
to deliver a sermon
a minister who loves to preach
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Recent Examples of preach
They’re preached as the golden keys to success, with entire industries—technology, media and even education—rallying around them as essential components of future growth.
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Vikram Joshi, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Campbell allowed these individuals to preach, teach Sunday school and volunteer with children.
—Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC news, 12 May 2025
Give Schmidt better voices — not the same ones, preaching the same, tired, failing stuff, on the same insular loop.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 11 May 2025
The meeting lasted about 15 minutes inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, where Francis often preached the need for a peaceful end to the war, just before Trump and Zelenskyy took their seats at the outdoor funeral service.
—Arkansas Online, 27 Apr. 2025
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Vikram Joshi, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Campbell allowed these individuals to preach, teach Sunday school and volunteer with children.
—Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC news, 12 May 2025
Give Schmidt better voices — not the same ones, preaching the same, tired, failing stuff, on the same insular loop.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 11 May 2025
The meeting lasted about 15 minutes inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, where Francis often preached the need for a peaceful end to the war, just before Trump and Zelenskyy took their seats at the outdoor funeral service.
—Arkansas Online, 27 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for preach
Verb
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Our Seek the City to Come initiative harnessed the wisdom of 6,000 voices that guided my decision to revitalize parishes as evangelizing missionary centers.—
William E. Lori,
Baltimore Sun,
24 Apr. 2025
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The two traveled to China to evangelize, but became severely ill.—
Carolyn Kellogg,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Apr. 2025
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The sermonizing lands hardest near the beginning and end of Life of Pi, where director Max Webster lets things get a little slack and starry-eyed.—
Vulture,
Vulture,
30 Mar. 2023
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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 25 May. 2025.
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