as in to evangelize
to deliver a sermon
a minister who loves to preach
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So preached the last testament of Ka, the 52-year-old New York City emcee who died in October.
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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
But college marketing efforts must not preach to a world that many on a campus wish existed.
—Brian Mitchell, Forbes, 17 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
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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
But college marketing efforts must not preach to a world that many on a campus wish existed.
—Brian Mitchell, Forbes, 17 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
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