as in to evangelize
to deliver a sermon
a minister who loves to preach
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Recent Examples of preach
Haynes aims to use preaching, social justice activism and coalition building to craft legislative solutions for District 30, where many residents face poverty and despair.
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Gromer Jeffers Jr, Dallas Morning News, 12 Jan. 2026
That prophecy materialized little more than a year later, as the street-preaching Frisbee launched the House of Miracles commune in Costa Mesa, alongside struggling preacher Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel.
—Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
Since Andrea's trials, Woroniecki has continued to preach across the United States.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 10 Jan. 2026
The four-day event draws on the principles of Wim Hof, a Dutch extreme athlete who preaches the gospel of cold therapy.
—Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 9 Jan. 2026
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Gromer Jeffers Jr, Dallas Morning News, 12 Jan. 2026
That prophecy materialized little more than a year later, as the street-preaching Frisbee launched the House of Miracles commune in Costa Mesa, alongside struggling preacher Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel.
—Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
Since Andrea's trials, Woroniecki has continued to preach across the United States.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 10 Jan. 2026
The four-day event draws on the principles of Wim Hof, a Dutch extreme athlete who preaches the gospel of cold therapy.
—Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 9 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for preach
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Neal Rubin Carrie Klingelsmith evangelizes about hunger anyplace that will let her through the door.—
NEAL RUBIN,
Freep.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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Han evangelizes the many ways that self-driving vehicles—and moving away from a car-centric culture—can improve society.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
6 Nov. 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 17 Jan. 2026.
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