proselytize

Pratt needed to proselytize — not preach to the choir.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

The result of all this history is the echo that still persists in the contemporary views of human-rights organizations, with their definitions of religious freedom as centered around the freedom to proselytize.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

His voice didn’t proselytize, either, and so I’m grateful that Richard was in the back of my mind, when the body positivity movement swept and seemed a new kind of dogma.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2024

I’m not here to proselytize, but if you have a hankering to join in on the photo fun, tools like Wikishootme show you nearby landmarks that need photos.

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2023

Our policy was to be friendly, to take an interest, to compliment them on their achievements, but not to proselytize.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

This one credited to fitness influencer Dr. Paul Saladino, author of “The Carnivore Code,” who proselytizes the health benefits of eating animal organs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2024

Turner now proselytizes in the Dodgers clubhouse, teaching or reinforcing the beliefs of talented young hitters like Cody Bellinger and Corey Seager, and even influencing some hitting instructors like Hyers.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2019

Koch proselytizes for integrated information theory, which holds that even a single proton might be a little bit conscious.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 4, 2017

As the founder of the Lit City Trax record label, Imanian-Friedman, also called J-Cush, proselytizes for a variety of dance-music subgenres from around the world, most notably Chicago’s relentlessly herky-jerky footwork scene.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 23, 2015

But it is the tangible and the immediate that occupy and preoccupy Dubos; at 70, he proselytizes like a young man with a mission.

From Time Magazine Archive

Muslims ruled large parts of India from the early 13th to the 19th century, and during this era Muslim preachers and Sufi mystics actively proselytized for Islam.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

X says she was not proselytized, let alone "radicalized," by a Muslim chaplain or anyone else.

From Salon ● May 8, 2022

From his apartment, he proselytized to guests like Outterbridge, David Hammons and Judson Powell.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2021

He proselytized about police and power, quoting icons more typically associated with social-justice activism: Saul Alinsky, the self-described “professional radical,” and Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave and abolitionist.

From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2021

I knew that Gaur was a member of the party, but he had never proselytized for it.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

It makes sense that proselytizing religions would see the potential of the algorithm.

From Salon ● May 10, 2026

Instead, Jim donated it to the Boys and Girls Club—a nod to the foster-care system that had raised him while his father toured the country proselytizing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

She’s been holding Zoom meetings for neighbors, proselytizing just this month when she hosted a community potluck where 70 people watched her lay the first few Perfect Blocks of her fireproof home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2025

“It’s something quasi-religious, having this ritual,” Gehrz said, adding that outright proselytizing has been tightly regulated since a 1981 U.S.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2023

I know she had the ring before Dad served a mission—which was expected of all faithful Mormon men—and spent two years proselytizing in Florida.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover