as in to evangelize
to deliver a sermon
a minister who loves to preach
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Recent Examples of preach
To speed up a recovery, the city invested heavily in public projects, while economic developers preached a message of diversification and cooperation.
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Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 29 May 2025
Unlike monks who withdrew from ordinary life, mendicants stressed a life of poverty, spent in travel from town to town to preach and help the poor.
—Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 27 May 2025
All weekend, manager Carlos Mendoza has been preaching to his team that while the Dodgers are great, the Mets are pretty good too.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 25 May 2025
In a park about 2 miles away from Floyd’s grave site, a memorial service was set to take place, followed by five hours of music, preaching, poetry readings and a balloon release.
—Mark Vancleave, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2025
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Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 29 May 2025
Unlike monks who withdrew from ordinary life, mendicants stressed a life of poverty, spent in travel from town to town to preach and help the poor.
—Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 27 May 2025
All weekend, manager Carlos Mendoza has been preaching to his team that while the Dodgers are great, the Mets are pretty good too.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 25 May 2025
In a park about 2 miles away from Floyd’s grave site, a memorial service was set to take place, followed by five hours of music, preaching, poetry readings and a balloon release.
—Mark Vancleave, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for preach
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Backlash to trans rights had swollen into one of the animating causes of the Republican Party, whose leaders were evangelizing the notion that gender nonconformity was a social contagion that targeted children and threatened to undermine civilization itself.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
22 May 2025
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Minnie was devoted to the Salvation Army because of the church’s dedication to evangelizing and doing good works.—
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 14 Jun. 2025.
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