as in to evangelize
to deliver a sermon
a minister who loves to preach
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Recent Examples of preach
Most coaches in such circumstances will preach one game at a time.
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Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2026
Despite the threat, King continued to preach nonviolence.
—Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 30 Jan. 2026
The pulpit where sermons were preached looked like an abstract disaster.
—Marvin Hurst, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
Recent Emmy nominee and beloved Broadway star Michael Urie gets to embrace Brian’s egomania by preaching its benefits in an improvised TED talk… only to then repeatedly abandon his personal belief system in favor of the show’s supportive communal vibes.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2026
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Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2026
Despite the threat, King continued to preach nonviolence.
—Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 30 Jan. 2026
The pulpit where sermons were preached looked like an abstract disaster.
—Marvin Hurst, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
Recent Emmy nominee and beloved Broadway star Michael Urie gets to embrace Brian’s egomania by preaching its benefits in an improvised TED talk… only to then repeatedly abandon his personal belief system in favor of the show’s supportive communal vibes.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for preach
Verb
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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
Verb
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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 7 Feb. 2026.
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