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preach

verb as in speak publicly about beliefs

verb as in lecture, moralize

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While analytics will preach that you must shoot the three and post-up moves are virtually extinct from today’s game, the Lakers have gotten back to the finals doing the exact opposite.

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So if I’m going to preach that, I better be practicing it every day.

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The fact that diversity execs aren’t just preaching to the converted internally now is evidence of this.

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Both issues are of acute concern for a president who preaches the need for self-sufficiency.

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At Coffee Creek, his evangelical church outside Oklahoma City, he had preached on racial justice for the past three weeks.

At Christianity Today, Peter Chin claims Christians should preach peace instead of bogging down in the particulars of race.

Priests often preach support for the regime to their congregations, many of whom loudly dissent.

In letters to Theo, Vincent would preach to younger brother the virtues of life.

Sex and the City fans were right behind her, ready to preach.

We should partner with them to get the message across, have them at the table, and listen rather than preach.

When I am an old maid I am going to mount the platform and preach the training of the voice in childhood.

But it is emulating Mrs. Partington and her mop to attempt to preach down a (p. 206) world.

"I don't allow a parson's wife to preach to me about my duty, or to interfere wi' my family matters," said Rushmere, dryly.

Many of us think it would be well if we could find a reliable man who could work and who could preach during the hours of rest.

Arise and go to Ninive, the great city, and preach in it: For the wickedness thereof is come up before me.

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On this page you'll find 42 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to preach, such as: exhort, teach, address, deliver, evangelize, and inform.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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