as in to evangelize
to deliver a sermon
a minister who loves to preach
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Recent Examples of preach
Baptist and Presbyterian preachers were fined and jailed by local authorities for preaching without licenses.
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Corey D. B. Walker, The Conversation, 9 Mar. 2026
Getting a fun moment outside of basketball is the kind of ethos of this season’s Bruins, with Jaquez saying Close has preached joy as much as wins.
—Marisa Ingemi, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2026
Talk is talk, and the field would prove what values Florida actually preaches.
—Noah White, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2026
The most famous fatwa was issued by Ibn Taymiyyah, a fierce Sunni jurist of the fourteenth century, who preached a rigid interpretation of the Quran and strict adherence to the cultural habits of the great deserts of the Arabian Peninsula.
—Literary Hub, 4 Mar. 2026
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Corey D. B. Walker, The Conversation, 9 Mar. 2026
Getting a fun moment outside of basketball is the kind of ethos of this season’s Bruins, with Jaquez saying Close has preached joy as much as wins.
—Marisa Ingemi, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2026
Talk is talk, and the field would prove what values Florida actually preaches.
—Noah White, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2026
The most famous fatwa was issued by Ibn Taymiyyah, a fierce Sunni jurist of the fourteenth century, who preached a rigid interpretation of the Quran and strict adherence to the cultural habits of the great deserts of the Arabian Peninsula.
—Literary Hub, 4 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for preach
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Kottikollon’s approach diverges sharply from Silicon Valley’s model, often defined by prescription-heavy biohacking and evangelized by the likes of Bryan Johnson.—
Mark Ellwood,
Robb Report,
14 Feb. 2026
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Merrill, a former injection drug user who is in recovery, counts herself among the thousands of harm reduction workers nationwide evangelizing a shift away from needles and toward pipes.—
Lev Facher,
STAT,
12 Feb. 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 19 Mar. 2026.
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