proselytize

The result of all this history is the echo that still persists in the contemporary views of human-rights organizations, with their definitions of religious freedom as centered around the freedom to proselytize.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

His voice didn’t proselytize, either, and so I’m grateful that Richard was in the back of my mind, when the body positivity movement swept and seemed a new kind of dogma.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2024

“There’s no proselytizing because our church doesn’t proselytize or try to convert anyone — they just talk.”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 11, 2023

I’m not here to proselytize, but if you have a hankering to join in on the photo fun, tools like Wikishootme show you nearby landmarks that need photos.

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2023

Our policy was to be friendly, to take an interest, to compliment them on their achievements, but not to proselytize.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

The 48-year-old proselytizes a carefully calculated “flexitarian” pitch that goes down well in an age of better burgers and planetary anxiety.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2020

Now, I am someone who proselytizes for the theatrical experience every chance I get.

From Slate ● Jan. 3, 2019

Koch proselytizes for integrated information theory, which holds that even a single proton might be a little bit conscious.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 4, 2017

As the founder of the Lit City Trax record label, Imanian-Friedman, also called J-Cush, proselytizes for a variety of dance-music subgenres from around the world, most notably Chicago’s relentlessly herky-jerky footwork scene.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 23, 2015

Tirelessly, Brown proselytizes for reduced spending, probing with Socratic questioning that leaves many listeners in a rage.

From Time Magazine Archive

Muslims ruled large parts of India from the early 13th to the 19th century, and during this era Muslim preachers and Sufi mystics actively proselytized for Islam.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

X says she was not proselytized, let alone "radicalized," by a Muslim chaplain or anyone else.

From Salon ● May 8, 2022

She said the values around glamorized wealth and extreme thinness have only been proselytized wider as Ms. Zuckerbrot’s renown has grown.

From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2020

He met his wife, who also proselytized, at their evangelical church.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2020

As Regina had proselytized all her life for various causes—always liberal and humanistic ones—so, too, Bobby had become a proselytizer.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Instead, Jim donated it to the Boys and Girls Club—a nod to the foster-care system that had raised him while his father toured the country proselytizing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

In that sense, Cronenberg’s films are eerily prescient allegories of our present-day techverse and proselytizing profiteers like Sam Altman and Elon Musk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024

Many noted that they had built up audiences with little to no marketing, and saw no need to echo the aggressive proselytizing of their counterparts.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2024

“It’s something quasi-religious, having this ritual,” Gehrz said, adding that outright proselytizing has been tightly regulated since a 1981 U.S.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2023

Doubly convinced by Mendel’s experimental data, and by his own evidence, Bateson set about proselytizing.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee