exhort

Now and again the band pauses as the musicians praise and exhort each other.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2023

Her story appeared in Chinese social media despite digital and human censors and prompted commentators to exhort national media to highlight the scandal.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2023

Psychologists understand that the quickest way to understanding someone is through their wounds, and musicians too understand this power of music to comfort, console, encourage and exhort themselves and other broken hearts.

From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2022

Mr. Gorbachev threw himself into the work, honing his speaking skills, often making trips around the Stavropol region to exhort young people to be good socialists and believe in the party.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2022

To teach and exhort and explain to his people—and to have them understand.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

“Badlands,” where Springsteen exhorts, “talk about a dream, try to make it real,” comes after “Tom Joad” as a counterbalance to the tale of hope and despair that precedes it.

From Salon ● May 28, 2026

Touch them, he exhorts his readers; stain your fingers with their pollen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Around every bend are tiny rewards - a copse of trees with the Olympic rings poking out, a tiny reflecting-pool shrine that exhorts people to “remember here those who gave their lives for peace.”

From Washington Times ● Sep. 23, 2023

Bishop Timothy Clarke, pastor of First Church of God in Columbus, Ohio, frequently exhorts his predominantly African American congregation to respect those with opposing views.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2023

There’s nothing to do but try to ignore the nasty stuff soaking my foot and, as Ted exhorts us, work through it.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

During a commercial break at last year’s Oscars, he got up onstage and exhorted the crowd to get up and dance as a toast to Los Angeles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026

Speaking at Davos earlier, Zelensky exhorted Europe to do more to ensure its own security, saying: "Europe loves to discuss the future but avoids taking action".

From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2026

Obviously reading from a prepared script, she exhorted Angelenos to help one another and expressed confidence that we would rebuild.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2025

“How will she remember this?” she exhorted her students.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2024

Teachers exhorted us to be like him, to lift ourselves from poverty by our bootstraps.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

Nearly a week after Sept. 11, he took the extraordinary step — unthinkable for Donald Trump — of visiting a mosque and exhorting people to not use violence.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

Gildas, as Mr. Higham relates, likened post-Roman Britain to ancient Israel, exhorting his countrymen to “renew their compact with God and thereby recover His favor and, in consequence, their ancestral homeland.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

When Rae Burrell enters, the game announcer is rehearsing, exhorting the not-yet-arrived crowd to cheer for their team.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026

And now, here she was - seemingly a middle-aged woman - exhorting Tamilians across the world to take forward the political struggle for their freedom.

From BBC ● May 15, 2024

A colonel came down the beach with his entourage, exhorting the noncoms and junior officers to re-form and improvise squads.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson