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evangelize

[ih-van-juh-lahyz] / ɪˈvæn dʒəˌlaɪz /


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Still, Mr. Kumar is correct on one count: Faiths that evangelize differ from those that don’t.

From The Wall Street Journal May 12, 2026

Maybe I wouldn’t be so tempted to evangelize if it weren’t for Cruise and director Chris McQuarrie’s ability to so presciently understand what the “Mission: Impossible” franchise can be.

From Salon May 24, 2025

In that way, the choice to debut “Galilee, 34” at an Orange County theater “is mirroring what the play is about,” said actor Berryman of the characters’ debate about where to evangelize.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 26, 2024

They evangelize about important deadlines for financial aid and guide students through their college decisions.

From Seattle Times Jan. 22, 2024

To this country, according to the instructions of Pope Gregory IV., there were pastoral visits made to strengthen the newly-converted Northmen in the faith, and to evangelize the Esquimaux and the Indian tribes.

From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World by Dora Leigh

When asked what she wants Seattle Times readers to know about her Walls of Books locations, Vaughn evangelizes about the neighborly art of bookselling.

From Seattle Times Sep. 23, 2022

He often evangelizes on fair-minded bosses and companies.

From Washington Post Aug. 18, 2022

It derives its value from people actually using it, which is why Sun evangelizes Tron.

From The Verge Sep. 29, 2020

“On Her Shoulders” shadows Nadia through three different situations, starting with a trip to Canada, where she evangelizes for the Yazidis’ plight in the hope that more of her compatriots will be admitted as refugees.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 23, 2018

But where Kanye’s devotion has always resembled the near-mystic inwardness and complexity of John’s Gospel, Chance is more like the apostles of Acts: he relentlessly, almost compulsively, evangelizes and invites.

From The New Yorker May 24, 2016

But he does have the directive to expand its appeal beyond the athletic male American base that evangelized its tech early on.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

Evans says what this has led to is a kind of simplistic spiritual utopianism evangelized by many leaders of the modern psychedelic renaissance.

From Salon Mar. 8, 2024

And Ann Patchett evangelized her treadmill desk, which she said gave her a wonderful sense of “walking into my book” and which she spoke of with such fervor I briefly considered getting one myself.

From Seattle Times Oct. 23, 2023

Dutch extreme athlete and wellness guru Wim Hof, known as “the Iceman,” evangelized the practice as key to his fitness method.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 11, 2023

Since that day the true Apostle of Christ has respected the language of the people he evangelized.

From Catholic Problems in Western Canada by George Thomas Daly

Not only was he America’s most famous art instructor, he was also our unofficial art therapist, evangelizing painting as a way to find solace in our imagination.

From Salon May 2, 2026

Consultants are making a fortune evangelizing these terms.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 1, 2026

She compares her numerous postscreening Q&As to an evangelizing mission.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 14, 2025

For a man evangelizing for change in San Francisco, owning a condo that used to be part of a church comes in handy.

From New York Times Mar. 29, 2024

In Europe, another innovator, Charles Babbage, born the son of a banker in 1791, was developing an early calculating machine at the time that Morse was refining and evangelizing the telegraph.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel




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