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noun

as in teaching

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verb

present participle of preach

as in evangelizing

to deliver a sermon a minister who loves to preach

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Noun

But Hahn, who rediscovered her own evangelical Christian roots decades after PTL, said her opinion changed later after a deeper viewing of the show and of Bakker’s preaching about the End Times. — Tim Funk, Charlotte Observer, 6 Oct. 2026 Falwell’s preaching struck me as the antithesis of those values. — Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2026 Worship centers on prayer, the reading and preaching of scripture, congregational singing, and the celebration of the Eucharist. — Stephanie Triplettall, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Aug. 2026 In those days, there were divinity-school students from Yale, Andover, and Amherst preaching abolition and establishing schools throughout the frontier. — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 4 July 2026 Watch for intense preaching or over-defending beliefs. — Usa Today, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2026 There’s no outright preaching, no plea to condemn or sympathize either way. — David Opie, IndieWire, 15 Apr. 2026 My mother got fed up with my nonstop preaching. — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2026 The high court unanimously ruled in the case of Gabriel Olivier, who says his religious and free speech rights were violated when he was arrested for refusing to move his preaching away from a suburban amphitheater. — ABC News, 20 Mar. 2026

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The family traveled around the country preaching and soliciting donations, and when Gortner was 16, his father absconded with what was reported to be $3 million in donations. — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 4 Oct. 2026 So as the Knicks begin training camp with dreams of hoisting the Larry O’Brien Trophy again, Brown is already preaching to his players the importance of maintaining their edge. — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 28 Sep. 2026 Alpert, now Ram Dass, returned from India in white robes and bare feet, preaching and writing about consciousness. — Claire Hoffman, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026 Christen is fully committed to practicing rather than preaching. — Wwd Staff, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026 Instead, they were radicalized in place through exposure to news reporting, online propaganda, preaching, and the fellowship of like-minded individuals. — Daniel Benjamin, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2026 Jeffries, a cautious Brooklynite poised to become speaker, must juggle fiery progressives, restive moderates and backlash over a Jared Kushner meeting while preaching Pelosi-style discipline and teamwork. — Lisa Mascaro, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026 Graham used his influence widely and was accustomed to preaching in peculiar settings. — Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2026 He was branded a heretic, in part for preaching that the nobility were immoral and so was nobility itself. — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 28 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for preaching

Noun

With zero acting gigs on the horizon and weary of taking handouts from Tori, Trina returns to Hollywood Arts for a substitute teaching position.

— Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
Kayla Safdari Flores works two jobs over and above pursuing a teaching credential program at Sacramento State.

— Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of teaching

Noun

Bakker offered upbeat sermons and Tammy Faye, charismatic and always wearing her trademark heavy mascara, sang.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026
The show was based around chats with guests and Christian entertainers, with Bakker offering upbeat sermons and Tammy Faye singing.

— Greg Norman-Diamond, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of sermon

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Ishibashi makes for a resilient and empathetic Junna, even as her character inevitably bears the brunt of much of the film’s divisive moralizing, while Emoto’s Morio is a quivering wreck of fragility and good intentions.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026
Blown up for a movie-theater screen, what may have once played as a chilling enactment of justice is now more likely to receive rollicking laughter from its audience, so theatrical is Hansen’s moralizing.

— Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of moralizing

Noun

Duckworth also faced backlash from critics who argued that her message was, at best, a series of hollow exhortations to simply try harder and, at worst, an insidious form of victim-blaming that ignored structural inequality.

— Meghan O’Gieblyn, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
His character is a severe, hectoring figure; his lessons amount to an exhortation to be as mean as possible when money is concerned.

— Christopher Cox, Vanity Fair, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of exhortation

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The institute expects to add 16 subspecialty providers, expand clinical trial opportunities and house outpatient therapy, rehabilitation and neuro infusion services, along with Baptist Health’s first academic lecture theater.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2026
In fact, the very week our paper was accepted, a leading expert gave a lecture stating that everyone knew T cells could not be grown in culture.

— Robert C. Gallo, STAT, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of lecture

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