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evangelize

[ih-van-juh-lahyz] / ɪˈvæn dʒəˌlaɪz /


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Sure, celebrities often partner with fast-food restaurants to release collaboration meal deals, but Cane’s A-listers also seem to evangelize the brand itself.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

Still, Mr. Kumar is correct on one count: Faiths that evangelize differ from those that don’t.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

All of this might have remained in the realm of intellectual exploit had Tanton not begun to formalize and evangelize his beliefs.

From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2024

They evangelize about important deadlines for financial aid and guide students through their college decisions.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 22, 2024

As soon as possible Dominic sent forth his followers, of whom there were but sixteen, to evangelize the world, just as the Franciscans were undertaking their first missionary journeys.

From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by James Harvey Robinson

When asked what she wants Seattle Times readers to know about her Walls of Books locations, Vaughn evangelizes about the neighborly art of bookselling.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2022

It derives its value from people actually using it, which is why Sun evangelizes Tron.

From The Verge ● Sep. 29, 2020

In breezy chapters complemented by charming illustrations, Weir evangelizes on the joys of quotidian pleasures such as warm feet, warm fires and, obviously, tea.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2020

Ortiz, too, said he evangelizes electronic borrowing — even if it means longer waits for Tana French and Stephen King.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2019

But where Kanye’s devotion has always resembled the near-mystic inwardness and complexity of John’s Gospel, Chance is more like the apostles of Acts: he relentlessly, almost compulsively, evangelizes and invites.

From The New Yorker ● May 24, 2016

But he does have the directive to expand its appeal beyond the athletic male American base that evangelized its tech early on.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

“The approach that we adopted and evangelized over the last two years has proven to be really effective at decreasing harm and violence,” Braniff told the task force.

From Salon ● May 29, 2025

And Ann Patchett evangelized her treadmill desk, which she said gave her a wonderful sense of “walking into my book” and which she spoke of with such fervor I briefly considered getting one myself.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 23, 2023

Dutch extreme athlete and wellness guru Wim Hof, known as “the Iceman,” evangelized the practice as key to his fitness method.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2023

This was the starting-point of the legend according to which the Apostle Thomas had of old evangelized America.

From Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru by Albert R?ville

I hope Mr. Cook spends his Apple executive chairman time evangelizing the globalization that once was—and that worked!

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

Not only was he America’s most famous art instructor, he was also our unofficial art therapist, evangelizing painting as a way to find solace in our imagination.

From Salon ● May 2, 2026

She compares her numerous postscreening Q&As to an evangelizing mission.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025

For a man evangelizing for change in San Francisco, owning a condo that used to be part of a church comes in handy.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2024

In Europe, another innovator, Charles Babbage, born the son of a banker in 1791, was developing an early calculating machine at the time that Morse was refining and evangelizing the telegraph.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel


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