as in to evangelize
to deliver a sermon
a minister who loves to preach
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Recent Examples of preach
During this time, he will not be allowed to participate in preaching, teaching, administrative oversight or leadership functions within the church and school, according to the statement.
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Elissa Jorgensen, Dallas Morning News, 19 Feb. 2026
The film follows a Texas preacher that leaves the state for Louisiana and starts preaching on the radio.
—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Feb. 2026
Though the focus of the Nuggets was offense, Moe spent ample time preaching defense — insisting it, not the team’s scoring ability, would make the difference between winning and losing.
—Eddie Pells, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026
But, like the first film, all the trials and heartache seem to work without preaching to the choir just like a country song — or in this case a Christian song.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 17 Feb. 2026
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Elissa Jorgensen, Dallas Morning News, 19 Feb. 2026
The film follows a Texas preacher that leaves the state for Louisiana and starts preaching on the radio.
—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Feb. 2026
Though the focus of the Nuggets was offense, Moe spent ample time preaching defense — insisting it, not the team’s scoring ability, would make the difference between winning and losing.
—Eddie Pells, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026
But, like the first film, all the trials and heartache seem to work without preaching to the choir just like a country song — or in this case a Christian song.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 17 Feb. 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 27 Feb. 2026.
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