as in exhortation
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Recent Examples of preachment
This is why their exhortations and preachments are so commonly met with bemused responses.
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Adolph Reed Jr., Harper's Magazine, 21 Feb. 2022
It may well be called a preachment for peace.
—Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
Both figures suggest that the Church’s preachment would be inaccessible to the majority of the English people in both Latin and the vernacular without some sort of visual aid.
—John Hirschauer, National Review, 14 Nov. 2019
And the filmmaker—a cold term for such a masterly artist—has portrayed every bit of it with perfect clarity and not the slightest whiff of preachment.
—Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2018
His preachments about climate change, to put a rational gloss on it, were a sales pitch.
—Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 22 June 2018
No preachments are preached, no parables are dwelled on.
—Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2017
No preachments are preached, no parables are dwelled on.
—Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 23 Feb. 2017
Adolph Reed Jr., Harper's Magazine, 21 Feb. 2022
It may well be called a preachment for peace.
—Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
Both figures suggest that the Church’s preachment would be inaccessible to the majority of the English people in both Latin and the vernacular without some sort of visual aid.
—John Hirschauer, National Review, 14 Nov. 2019
And the filmmaker—a cold term for such a masterly artist—has portrayed every bit of it with perfect clarity and not the slightest whiff of preachment.
—Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2018
His preachments about climate change, to put a rational gloss on it, were a sales pitch.
—Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 22 June 2018
No preachments are preached, no parables are dwelled on.
—Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2017
No preachments are preached, no parables are dwelled on.
—Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 23 Feb. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for preachment
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For all its exhortations about the future, Francis Ford Coppola's passion project is also heavily inspired by ancient Roman history.EW.com, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2024
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With reality so often at odds with their idealized portrait, Gavin and Steinberg retreat into exhortation.James B. Steinberg, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020
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In a letter sent to football players and their families, Kelly Lara, an assistant district superintendent, said two incidents occurred involving racist speech made toward, and about, a Black teammate.Krissy Waite, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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Old trees also matter for climate change, as Biden noted in his Seattle speech.April Ehrlich, ProPublica, 12 Nov. 2024
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The museum also hosts workshops, lectures, and performances and is planning an exhibition on the workings of quantum physics for next year.Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Nov. 2024
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In a lecture in 2012, the eminent physicist Freeman Dyson considered (opens a new tab) gravitational waves from the sun, where the violent churning of matter inside the star should constantly send out mild tremors in space-time.Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
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At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson and Remington, handed over hundreds of thousands of names, addresses and other private data — without customer knowledge or consent — to the NSSF, which then entered the details into what would become a massive database.Corey G. Johnson, ProPublica, 15 Nov. 2024
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Soho is rendered as a ganglia of lines leading to hundreds of names and their addresses.Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
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“Preachment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preachment. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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