preachment

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Recent Examples of preachment It may well be called a preachment for peace. Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023 This is why their exhortations and preachments are so commonly met with bemused responses. Adolph Reed Jr., Harper's Magazine, 21 Feb. 2022 Both figures suggest that the Church’s preachment would be inaccessible to the majority of the English people in both Latin and the vernacular without some sort of visual aid. John Hirschauer, National Review, 14 Nov. 2019 And the filmmaker—a cold term for such a masterly artist—has portrayed every bit of it with perfect clarity and not the slightest whiff of preachment. Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for preachment
Noun
  • Her voice was loud and hoarse, calling out comments or exhortations concerning the game.
    Rachel Cusk, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
  • But local leaders had no doubt about the perpetrators, even though the state’s campaign had previously been carried out through public exhortations and directives, not clandestine repaintings.
    Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Voice recognition technology, refined through work with speech disabilities, powers virtual assistants used by billions.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The El Grito de Independencia commemorates the speech that marks the beginning of the Mexican independence movement.
    Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Instead of giving a long lecture on the subject, the teacher shares a 5 minute video highlighting the main events of the war.
    Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 10 Sep. 2025
  • However, the first module typically is a single video lecture introducing the class.
    Jill Duffy, PC Magazine, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In fact, its filing lists 10 prize winners among the 20 largest unsecured creditors, although the names and addresses of those winners are redacted.
    Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The Arlington, Virginia, address on the website led the duo to just a mailbox.
    Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025

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“Preachment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preachment. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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