preached

past tense of preach
as in evangelized
to deliver a sermon a minister who loves to preach

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Recent Examples of preached So preached the last testament of Ka, the 52-year-old New York City emcee who died in October. Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024 His ideas found a warm reception in the United States at the onset of the Progressive Era, as Americans preached simplicity and the control of passions (temperance was by then a mass movement) with an almost religious zeal. Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024 The science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein also allegedly influenced Manson, with its plot about a man from Mars who preached free love and caused a major movement on Earth. Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 14 Dec. 2024 The off-ball movement Finch preached during the layoff this week was nowhere to be found. Jon Krawczynski, The Athletic, 14 Dec. 2024 Martin Luther often preached in the city church, and the city became the birthplace of the German Enlightenment, home to writer-philosophers Goethe and Schiller, and the namesake of the Weimar Republic. Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Dec. 2024 The two men’s paths had first crossed in Detroit, where Fard Muhammad was a street peddler of silk goods who also preached a self-help faith. Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 1 Dec. 2024 Some preached the benefits of more natural coffee bean cultivation in Africa — where the beans can grow alongside other plants and wildlife — while others advocated for the protection of whales, as the animal plays a vital role in ocean biodiversity. Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 21 Nov. 2024 Ebenezer Baptist Church’s historic chapel has been carefully restored to evoke the 1960s, when King preached there. Richard Fausset, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2024

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