as in evangelized
to deliver a sermon
a minister who loves to preach
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Recent Examples of preached
The pulpit where sermons were preached looked like an abstract disaster.
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Marvin Hurst, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
Darnold insisted he's tried to treat this week the same as any other, even if the stakes of the game are the highest, a mantra Macdonald has also preached.
—Arkansas Online, 25 Jan. 2026
By winning the national championship in Year 2 at Indiana, Curt Cignetti essentially eliminated all excuses for coaches who have preached patience.
—Antonio Morales, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2026
Urgent calls to unite against injustice were interspersed with energetic gospel on Monday at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where King preached.
—Terry Tang, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2026
During the movement, King preached a message of peace until his 1968 assassination in Memphis.
—Noe Padilla, USA Today, 16 Jan. 2026
Miller took a page from longtime Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin, who always preached to his teams the benefits of learning from failure.
—Cedric Golden, Austin American Statesman, 15 Jan. 2026
During the movement for equality among all people in the United States, King preached a message of peace in the face of adversity.
—Jordan Green, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 13 Jan. 2026
Acts like Children of the Day, Larry Norman, and Love Song would perform, but the event was organized by Billy Graham and Bill Bright’s Campus Crusade for Christ, which preached the virtues of conservative Christianity to college students across the nation.
—Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
Marvin Hurst, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
Darnold insisted he's tried to treat this week the same as any other, even if the stakes of the game are the highest, a mantra Macdonald has also preached.
—Arkansas Online, 25 Jan. 2026
By winning the national championship in Year 2 at Indiana, Curt Cignetti essentially eliminated all excuses for coaches who have preached patience.
—Antonio Morales, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2026
Urgent calls to unite against injustice were interspersed with energetic gospel on Monday at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where King preached.
—Terry Tang, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2026
During the movement, King preached a message of peace until his 1968 assassination in Memphis.
—Noe Padilla, USA Today, 16 Jan. 2026
Miller took a page from longtime Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin, who always preached to his teams the benefits of learning from failure.
—Cedric Golden, Austin American Statesman, 15 Jan. 2026
During the movement for equality among all people in the United States, King preached a message of peace in the face of adversity.
—Jordan Green, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 13 Jan. 2026
Acts like Children of the Day, Larry Norman, and Love Song would perform, but the event was organized by Billy Graham and Bill Bright’s Campus Crusade for Christ, which preached the virtues of conservative Christianity to college students across the nation.
—Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for preached
evangelized
Verb
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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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“Preached.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preached. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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