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evangelize

[ih-van-juh-lahyz] / ɪˈvæn dʒəˌlaɪz /


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The vibes put people at ease and helped evangelize private investments, attendees said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

Maybe I wouldn’t be so tempted to evangelize if it weren’t for Cruise and director Chris McQuarrie’s ability to so presciently understand what the “Mission: Impossible” franchise can be.

From Salon ● May 24, 2025

In that way, the choice to debut “Galilee, 34” at an Orange County theater “is mirroring what the play is about,” said actor Berryman of the characters’ debate about where to evangelize.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024

To attempt to evangelize them was to fly in the face of Providence.

From The Bridge of the Gods A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. by Frederic Homer Balch

He also evangelizes about the benefits it will bring to the study of biology, mathematics and physics.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 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

He often evangelizes on fair-minded bosses and companies.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2022

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

From The Verge ● Sep. 29, 2020

“On Her Shoulders” shadows Nadia through three different situations, starting with a trip to Canada, where she evangelizes for the Yazidis’ plight in the hope that more of her compatriots will be admitted as refugees.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2018

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

Evans says what this has led to is a kind of simplistic spiritual utopianism evangelized by many leaders of the modern psychedelic renaissance.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2024

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

Livingston, the founder, first evangelized among enslaved and freed people of San Andres, Crawford said, and the church remains a symbol of the anti-slavery struggle.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2022

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

Among many poignant episodes, Mr. Ryrie follows John Ogilvie’s successful evangelizing among Mohawks in 1750s Virginia, a story laced with irony.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 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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