as in to urge
to try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action
the speaker exhorted the graduating students to go forth and try to make a difference in the world
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Washington has exhorted its European and Asian allies to carry more weight for years and has been met mostly with shrugs and excuses.
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Ivo Daalder, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2018
On an August day in 2011, a man stood outside City Hall in Newark, New Jersey, exhorting a crowd through a wireless microphone.
—Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
Advertisement Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa Azin exhorted the world to lower youth unemployment.
—Edith M. Lederer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2024
In the face of this generational sea change, Cuba’s government wields power in an existential limbo and fills the void by exhorting its citizens to be faithful patriots.
—Jon Lee Anderson, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021
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Ivo Daalder, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2018
On an August day in 2011, a man stood outside City Hall in Newark, New Jersey, exhorting a crowd through a wireless microphone.
—Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
Advertisement Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa Azin exhorted the world to lower youth unemployment.
—Edith M. Lederer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2024
In the face of this generational sea change, Cuba’s government wields power in an existential limbo and fills the void by exhorting its citizens to be faithful patriots.
—Jon Lee Anderson, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021
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“Exhort.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exhort. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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