preachment
Example Sentences
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Thus began months of earnest “preachment,” and homebound Yanks responded with enthusiasm, much like their counterparts in Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom.
From Los Angeles Times
He sounds less like a human than like a sacred scroll, speaking in placid phrases of bodiless, archetypal preachment: “I would advise you kindly, Suleyman, against this course of action.”
From The New Yorker
They make a hollow lie of our preachments to other nations about the war on terror.
From Washington Times
It’s a preachment we hear today from many on the right.
From The New Yorker
He is also known to a wider world for his preachments on leadership skills at management conferences and the like, upholding “possibility thinking,” an airy concept he has written about with his partner, Rosamund Zander.
From New York Times
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