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preach

[preech] / pritʃ /




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Pastors and faith leaders can preach on any moral or social issue, including justice, poverty, immigration, war.

From Salon Jul. 18, 2026

And yes, I practice what I preach and own an energy-stock fund in my own retirement accounts, though none of those mentioned.

From MarketWatch Jul. 8, 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

Here people sell, picket, preach, protest, dine, sit and sleep.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 18, 2026

I date it—the slow crumbling of my faith, the pulverization of my fortress—from the time, about a year after I had begun to preach, when I began to read again.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin

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

Coach Cori Close preaches thriving, not surviving, and that’s been evident in the Bruins’ lopsided victory margin all season.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 22, 2026

Callans says he books car rentals through Costco all the time and preaches the savings to anyone who will listen, most recently his siblings in Chicago.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 17, 2025

The German preaches speed and intensity, pressing and hunting, and he saw plenty of it, but not from any of his players.

From BBC Oct. 23, 2025

“His church is mostly immigrants. They can’t understand him if he preaches in English.”

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

Martin O'Neill sang their praises in the aftermath and preached caution ahead of the second leg, as he was obliged to do.

From BBC Aug. 19, 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

For years, Netflix’s co-founder Reed Hastings preached the importance of focus and simplicity to succeed.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

The second night he preached, his topic was The Wages of Sin.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

Certain evangelical leaders may be politically and personally odious, but millions of Americans have flooded into nondenominational churches in search of biblical preaching, youth programs, fellowship, forgiveness and music.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

This is where we find Lestat in Season 3, preaching the gospel that this is his time.

From Salon Jun. 13, 2026

Is the man preaching salvation on the subway a predator?

From The Wall Street Journal May 12, 2026

"If someone wants to criticise me for preaching the Gospel... I hope simply to be listened to because of the value of God's words."

From BBC May 5, 2026

The man who had gone round the country preaching the importance of the campaign had now forsaken it.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela




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