preachified

verb

past tense of preachify
as in preached

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  1. preached
  2. evangelized
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  • Meanwhile, travel baseball killed the fabric of community that Little League has preached forever.
    — Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The church has always preached that humans are created in God’s image; by assuming the messy fragility of human form, God’s son sanctified human experience.
    — Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2026
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  • Catholics began to resurface around 1837 with another wave of European migrants who evangelized in the streets and in the name of the poor and immigrants.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • As the genre eventually called alt-country calcified in Souled American’s wake, luminaries like John Darnielle, Will Oldham, and Tweedy himself all evangelized about the Chicago group without ever replicating their sound.
    — Zach Schonfeld, Pitchfork, 17 Apr. 2026
Definition of evangelized
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