as in to preach
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Like so many great figures of history, Nkrumah is a complicated person, one who preached lofty ideas that his own human nature prevented him from consistently living up to.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
24 Oct. 2025 -
Administration can grow to model the virtues it should be made to preach.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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Elsewhere, Ba has evangelized the kind of faster, more reliable access to the internet that 2Africa promises.—
Samanth Subramanian,
The Dial,
14 Oct. 2025
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Influencers skipped the middleman and built audiences on nontraditional platforms — something Ashe had evangelized years earlier.—
Mark Dent,
HubSpot,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Platitudinize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/platitudinize. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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