as in to evangelize
to deliver a sermon
a minister who loves to preach
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Recent Examples of preach
Her advice extends beyond entrepreneurs and CEOs: Countless leadership experts and business books preach the value of delegation.
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Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2025
Trump had been preaching about this for the longest time.
—ABC News, 13 Apr. 2025
The Panthers are preaching heavy competition in the second year of the Canales-Morgan era.
—Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 7 Apr. 2025
The Nazis banned his books and barred him from lecturing and preaching.
—John Blake, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2025
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Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2025
Trump had been preaching about this for the longest time.
—ABC News, 13 Apr. 2025
The Panthers are preaching heavy competition in the second year of the Canales-Morgan era.
—Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 7 Apr. 2025
The Nazis banned his books and barred him from lecturing and preaching.
—John Blake, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for preach
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The comedian, presenter, and movie star has reinvented himself as a Christian convert who evangelizes about free speech and free thinking.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
4 Apr. 2025
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The middle line of leadership is in the trenches working the day-to-day and has the greatest opportunity to evangelize the future state vision to drive productive change.—
Laurie Waligurski,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 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 1 May. 2025.
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