as in to evangelize
to deliver a sermon
a minister who loves to preach
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Recent Examples of preach
Kiffin, though, appears to be preaching patience.
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Andrew McCarty, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
United Methodist leadership with the bishop’s office preached to students, who welcomed the leaders with excited howls.
—Liam Adams, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Oct. 2025
The Wild have preached patience with Jiricek, acquired 11 months ago in a trade with Columbus.
—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 27 Oct. 2025
That being said, the Sixers preached about setting a standard during training camp and the preseason.
—Tony Jones, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
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Andrew McCarty, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
United Methodist leadership with the bishop’s office preached to students, who welcomed the leaders with excited howls.
—Liam Adams, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Oct. 2025
The Wild have preached patience with Jiricek, acquired 11 months ago in a trade with Columbus.
—Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 27 Oct. 2025
That being said, the Sixers preached about setting a standard during training camp and the preseason.
—Tony Jones, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for preach
Recent Examples of Synonyms for preach
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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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For me, the goal is not to evangelize for nuclear but to remove the emotion and add data.—
Anna Broughel,
Forbes.com,
29 Oct. 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 16 Nov. 2025.
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