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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

The founding members, David Rubin, Telsey and Lora Kennedy, spent years trying to evangelize their work to other branches of the Academy.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 13, 2026

The two traveled to China to evangelize, but became severely ill.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 24, 2025

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

He might thus both unite the Greek cities and also evangelize the world.

From Five Stages of Greek Religion by Gilbert Murray

His hand rests on his heart as he evangelizes her writing — a surprisingly tender moment of sentimentality from a comedian who has made a career out of stinging misanthropy.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

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

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

As technology improved, particularly AI that handles time-consuming administrative tasks like building spreadsheets or sorting important from low priority emails, Pacitti evangelized working in microshifts to his staff and promoted it in recruiting.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 10, 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

But the unevangelized nations must be evangelized, and chiefly by their own people.

From History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. by Rufus Anderson

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

Consultants are making a fortune evangelizing these terms.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 1, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 14, 2025

The foundation of teaching people to write is evangelizing the process itself — a process of thinking, a process that can’t be outsourced.

From Seattle Times Dec. 22, 2023

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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