as in to evangelize
to deliver a sermon
a minister who loves to preach
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Recent Examples of preach
For Marie, that fight involves providing spiritual leadership to her community, praying for strength and perseverance, and preaching compassion and forgiveness, while distributing food and supplies to those in need.
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Tomris Laffly, Variety, 15 May 2025
Liberty coach Sandy Brondello often preaches that her players need to play through the post, or at least find Jones for touches, knowing just how effective the 6-foot-6 big can be.
—Ben Pickman, New York Times, 15 May 2025
Churches and synagogues anchored the civil rights movement, with pastors like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preaching equality.
—Kevin Sabet, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
Johnson preached following nine key ancestral tenets in order to achieve maximum health: sleep, eat, move, shield, connect, cold, sun, fight, and bond.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2025
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Tomris Laffly, Variety, 15 May 2025
Liberty coach Sandy Brondello often preaches that her players need to play through the post, or at least find Jones for touches, knowing just how effective the 6-foot-6 big can be.
—Ben Pickman, New York Times, 15 May 2025
Churches and synagogues anchored the civil rights movement, with pastors like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preaching equality.
—Kevin Sabet, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
Johnson preached following nine key ancestral tenets in order to achieve maximum health: sleep, eat, move, shield, connect, cold, sun, fight, and bond.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for preach
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Backlash to trans rights had swollen into one of the animating causes of the Republican Party, whose leaders were evangelizing the notion that gender nonconformity was a social contagion that targeted children and threatened to undermine civilization itself.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
22 May 2025
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Minnie was devoted to the Salvation Army because of the church’s dedication to evangelizing and doing good works.—
Carolyn Kellogg,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Apr. 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 5 Jun. 2025.
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