as in to evangelize
to deliver a sermon
a minister who loves to preach
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Recent Examples of preach
In the novel, Jackson preached practicing in the dark and silent meetings, forcing teams to connect with one another when struggling, and Delehanty outlined the supporting principles.
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Noah White, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2025
The coaching and training staff preached patience with Avila in this time, trying to keep the bigger picture in mind.
—Adam Grosbard, Oc Register, 13 Oct. 2025
Others are preaching patience, but acknowledge that the status quo is unacceptable.
—Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
Ahead of the Jets' 37-22 loss to the Dallas Cowboys last week, Glenn preached that a recent practice leading up to the game was one of their best.
—Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
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Noah White, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2025
The coaching and training staff preached patience with Avila in this time, trying to keep the bigger picture in mind.
—Adam Grosbard, Oc Register, 13 Oct. 2025
Others are preaching patience, but acknowledge that the status quo is unacceptable.
—Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
Ahead of the Jets' 37-22 loss to the Dallas Cowboys last week, Glenn preached that a recent practice leading up to the game was one of their best.
—Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for preach
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Elsewhere, Ba has evangelized the kind of faster, more reliable access to the internet that 2Africa promises.—
Samanth Subramanian,
The Dial,
14 Oct. 2025
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Influencers skipped the middleman and built audiences on nontraditional platforms — something Ashe had evangelized years earlier.—
Mark Dent,
HubSpot,
26 Sep. 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 28 Oct. 2025.
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