as in to evangelize
to deliver a sermon
a minister who loves to preach
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Recent Examples of preach
Keefe, his assistant coaches and team officials could not continue to preach those objectives without holding Whitmore accountable.
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Josh Robbins, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
Players who arrive at North Central might not fully understand what Spencer is trying to preach.
—Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
Extraordinary ancient finds were recently unearthed in Ephesus, the Turkish city where Paul the Apostle once preached.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 2 Jan. 2026
What unfolded afterward was a possession of perseverance and determination, of heart, of belief — all the adjectives the Hurricanes have preached about their team on full display when it was needed the most.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 1 Jan. 2026
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Neal Rubin Carrie Klingelsmith evangelizes about hunger anyplace that will let her through the door.—
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Han evangelizes the many ways that self-driving vehicles—and moving away from a car-centric culture—can improve society.—
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Rahill is the master of male-loneliness epidemic comedy, and his best work absorbs the collective unconscious of the internet’s aimless single dudes who sermonize to their phones from front seats of cars in dead mall parking lots, then spits it back out as a ridiculous reflection.—
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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.—
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“Preach.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preach. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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