exhorted
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Official propaganda exhorted citizens to face their lives and their duty to the Fatherland with endurance and perseverance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
In an eloquent eulogy bookended by the poetry of Czeslaw Milosz and Langston Hughes, he exhorted Americans to “practice the politics of the preamble to the Constitution” as the “only way” to honor Lewis’ life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2024
“How will she remember this?” she exhorted her students.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
The imperative of continuing hefty Western military and financial assistance to Ukraine was underscored repeatedly by Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, who exhorted participants to act, as he rushed from one high-level meeting to the next.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2024
She lingered only for this, and he knew it, even though she no longer exhorted him as she had in days but shortly gone by.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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