preach
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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
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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
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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
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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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