as in to evangelize
to deliver a sermon
a minister who loves to preach
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Recent Examples of preach
Thoughts like this are why the Titans have to preach patience at every turn.
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Nick Suss, The Tennessean, 30 Aug. 2025
That mentality isn’t just preached, it’s lived daily.
—Nick Lomaglio, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
In June, a former Peoria Unified School District employee accused the district of violating his religious freedom by restricting his ability to preach and teach religion at school.
—Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Chicago doesn’t need aldermanic stump speeches and op-eds that preach the gospel of equality and affordability while our leaders simultaneously are obstructionist.
—Miguel Chacon, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
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Nick Suss, The Tennessean, 30 Aug. 2025
That mentality isn’t just preached, it’s lived daily.
—Nick Lomaglio, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
In June, a former Peoria Unified School District employee accused the district of violating his religious freedom by restricting his ability to preach and teach religion at school.
—Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Chicago doesn’t need aldermanic stump speeches and op-eds that preach the gospel of equality and affordability while our leaders simultaneously are obstructionist.
—Miguel Chacon, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for preach
Verb
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Celebrities evangelize companies when something fixes a personal frustration.—
Lilian Raji,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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Many people have therefore adopted an automation mindset, in their desire either to evangelize AI or to warn against it.—
David Autor,
The Atlantic,
24 Aug. 2025
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The sermonizing lands hardest near the beginning and end of Life of Pi, where director Max Webster lets things get a little slack and starry-eyed.—
Vulture,
Vulture,
30 Mar. 2023
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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 10 Sep. 2025.
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