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preach

[preech] / pritʃ /




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Bernice Nartey, a passenger travelling to Kumasi, says pastors should be allowed to preach, but only with passengers' consent.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

And for those that preach that he is a person of faith, my granddad, a lay Baptist minister, always said, you know, faith without action —

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

The strategists also preach caution and expect continued investor wariness around so-called “AI cannibalization areas,” namely the software, business services and media sectors.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

"We want to be a place where there's a mixing of lots of perspectives, and this is us practicing what we preach -- a cosmologist working closely with a condensed matter theorist."

From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2026

Boys who wanted to preach came to me for tryouts.

From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau

The king of quiet luxury critiques tech-driven burnout, preaches humility among the wealthy and explains why he remains deeply hopeful about humanity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026

Ironically, Toru preaches the importance of good communication skills in the office, a lesson the film’s guarded family would be wise to heed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

On Tuesday night, Lahmeyer, a 34-year-old who preaches in suits, announced that he was running to represent Tulsa’s solidly red district, which is currently held by Rep. Kevin Hern.

From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2026

But experts who work with children say that there is a long way to go before the system can properly implement the ideals the law preaches.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2026

The doc’s a short man, round belly, don’t seem to practice what he preaches about eating right, but he’s got a kind heart, and he lays out some newspapers on his kitchen table.

From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

De Zerbi preached patience and he is right - 10 senior arrivals means his team is still to find an identity.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

“We visited local villages, preached the word, sent in clothes for the needy, toys for the children.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Abdel-Rahman lived and preached in New Jersey before he was convicted in 1995 of seditious conspiracy in relation to the first bombing of the World Trade Center.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026

Civic engagement was not something they preached, it was how they lived.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026

Papa called it a miracle and preached about it in church.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

But instead of preaching to the choir, he contends with society’s gray areas, never offering a solution — or even his own opinion — on the difficult topics at hand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Ghana is a predominantly Christian country where preaching on public transport is widespread.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Some people in the community who had been preaching the risks of losing control of AI felt vindicated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Much of my life is dedicated to preaching that art, and practicing reverence for it can be the glue that keeps us together when the world wants us torn apart.

From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026

Over the next forty years, giving as many as 250 speeches a year, speaking to more than one million people, he did just that, holding his audiences spellbound with his fire-and-brimstone style of preaching.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler




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