as in recommendation
a statement that strongly urges someone to do or avoid doing something
Despite her parents' exhortations to spend responsibly, she blew most of her savings on an expensive sports car.
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Recent Examples of exhortation
Each of Sanders’s videos is accompanied by thousands of comments, most by apparently delighted women who feel liberated by Sanders’s exhortations.
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Anna Holmes, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2025
Perhaps, but for Jacinto, the exhortation is literal.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2025
Perhaps the exhortations of the Ukrainian and other European leaders had resonated.
—Tom Nagorski, Time, 16 Aug. 2025
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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Anna Holmes, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2025
Perhaps, but for Jacinto, the exhortation is literal.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2025
Perhaps the exhortations of the Ukrainian and other European leaders had resonated.
—Tom Nagorski, Time, 16 Aug. 2025
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exhortation
Noun
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Quince’s size guide includes recommendations for inseam length based on height to make the process easier than ever.—
Rachel Trujillo,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
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Sitting members of the housing authority's board make recommendations on appointments or reappointments, which then are sent to the city's Board of Directors.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
23 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Any of Morocco’s front three could have featured here; all credible suggestions for player of the tournament.—
Thom Harris,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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OpenAI can use the SAI team’s knowledge of the macOS platform to develop new ways for ChatGPT not just to make suggestions about, but to agentically work directly on users’ macOS environments.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
23 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The hearing committee suggested to the guild executives that this should only be a warning.—
David Canfield,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Oct. 2025
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Jamaica’s airports remain open for now, but will likely close within 24 hours of a hurricane warning being issued for the country, according to Daryl Vaz, Minister of Science, Energy, Telecommunications and Transport.—
Briana Waxman,
CNN Money,
23 Oct. 2025
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Reagan’s speech is included in millions of administration records governed by the Presidential Record Act signed in 1981 by his predecessor, President Jimmy Carter.—
Bill Barrow,
Fortune,
25 Oct. 2025
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However, the ad selects and splices certain lines from the five-minute address rather than playing the remarks in the order they were delivered or reproducing the speech in its entirety.—
Michael Collins,
USA Today,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Exhortation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exhortation. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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