as in teaching
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as in evangelizing
to deliver a sermon
a minister who loves to preach
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Recent Examples of preaching
Luca Evans, Denver Post, 20 Dec. 2025
Officials in these countries say the Brotherhood uses a blend of religious preaching, political activism, charitable institutions and media platforms to shape public opinion and challenge state authority.
—Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 25 Nov. 2025
Street Scriptures highlights themes and messaging that there’s a sacredness in everyday experience, understanding that performance is also a form of preaching, and that soundscapes can be sites for revelation.
—Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 21 Nov. 2025
Jim Bakker typically handled the preaching on the show while his wife did the singing.
—Adam Bell, Charlotte Observer, 11 Sep. 2025
Jud sees faith as redemptive, having turned to it after causing the death of a fellow boxer in his youth, while Wicks uses shame in his preaching.
—Esther Zuckerman, Time, 8 Sep. 2025
According to a release, at the center of the memorial is a slightly larger than life size bronze of King preaching, in a welcoming gesture.
—Hailey Roden, The Enquirer, 14 Aug. 2025
Boys Go to Jupiter captures an adolescent malaise without talking down to its teens — there is no preaching about real jobs, responsibilities, or five-year plans.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 14 Aug. 2025
Her role includes supervising program staff and overseeing church programs as well as assisting in the preaching, teaching and pastoral ministry of the church.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 July 2025
Doug Haller, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
Midway through William Greaves’s documentary Nationtime, which follows the 1972 National Black Political Convention, a woman named Audley Moore stands in a busy hallway preaching to people’s backs.
—Dara T. Mathis, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2025
For the past year, the former partner at the venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz had been preaching the urgency of winning the AI race with China to friends, colleagues, and podcast listeners.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 11 Dec. 2025
Buffett has rightly been preaching it for 50 years.
—Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 4 Dec. 2025
The first four seasons primarily centered around Jesus recruiting disciples, preaching his message, and performing miracles, with the latter drawing ire from various political and religious forces.
—Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Dec. 2025
Adalberto Hernandez began preaching in the Nations Ford and Archdale area 18 years ago.
—Charlotte Observer, 27 Nov. 2025
After an offseason of Lucas preaching rebounding, length and physicality, the Hurricanes held their ground against Florida’s imposing frontcourt, forcing seven turnovers in the first eight minutes.
—Noah White, Miami Herald, 17 Nov. 2025
The church is surely about practicing 'love thy neighbor,' not just preaching it.
—Esme Nicholson, NPR, 4 Nov. 2025
Noun
If a team gets in the red zone five times and kicks five field goals, Singleton remembers Joseph preaching, what’s the score?
—Verb
Throughout Arizona’s tailspin, Gannon stuck to the blueprint, preaching process and patience during moments that publicly demanded more.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for preaching
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Hurley, a 30-year-old librarian librarian from Berkeley, California, went into teaching mode.—
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The preacher and the doctrine Rusty Yates was a follower of Woroniecki, who regularly traveled to college campuses and large events to spread his teachings, which would profoundly shape the Yates family’s worldview.—
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Previously, new languages could emerge from individuals or small teams evangelizing their approach to potential contributors and users.—
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Another state legislative proposal to allow public districts to hire school chaplains, which critics view as an underhanded attempt at evangelizing to students, has only succeeded in Texas and Florida.—
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What Meyer is really known for is his weekly sermon, delivered with a megaphone, getting the crowd pumped up and closing out with a final score prediction.—
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Duffman's announcement comes less than two months after the death of another longtime Simpsons regular, First Church Organist Alice Glick, who died during a sermon.—
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But the framing of the piece skews moralizing and voyeuristic.—
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The host, Shaina Shealy, tells a complex, sometimes raw story, resisting easy moralizing about the lives of her subjects.—
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In Queen Mother, Farmer takes a clear-eyed look at Moore’s foibles, noting her absenteeism during her son’s formative years, her embrace of patriarchal hierarchy in Black communities, and her exhortations for Black women to embrace polygyny to facilitate nation building.—
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His view toward law could be summarized in his indelicate three-word exhortation to his fellow prisoners at Nuremberg to show no remorse for crime and no respect for law.—
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The shelving unit that contains some of his collection of roughly 20,000 books stretches to the ceiling of the two-story living room; McDaniel would later perch on its narrow catwalk to deliver his lecture.—
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Very few people want to buy a ticket for a lecture on overconsumption, corporate exploitation, and the dumbing down of public discourse.—
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Another teaches free guitar lessons to keep kids out of trouble.—
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Glenn carried himself with the confidence of someone who had honed his coaching craft through lessons learned playing for Bill Parcells and working under Sean Payton and Dan Campbell.—
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Hill says Mikko, who is nonverbal, also uses an AAC device, which helps people who have speech or language problems to communicate.—
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The former child actor dove into his speech by first poking fun at his Home Alone fame.—
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“Preaching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preaching. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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