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[preech] / pritʃ /




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When financial professionals preach diversification, it’s not just about having a blend of stocks and bonds.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

Pastors and faith leaders can preach on any moral or social issue, including justice, poverty, immigration, war.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

Two women dressed in green and pink fur cradle each other’s heads, reimagining medieval depictions of cephalophores — Christian martyrs who carry their severed heads while continuing to preach or pray.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

"We want to be a place where there's a mixing of lots of perspectives, and this is us practicing what we preach -- a cosmologist working closely with a condensed matter theorist."

From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2026

Anyway, he pushed my knee, covered his mouth and whispered, “I say, preach it.”

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

Ironically, Toru preaches the importance of good communication skills in the office, a lesson the film’s guarded family would be wise to heed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

On Tuesday night, Lahmeyer, a 34-year-old who preaches in suits, announced that he was running to represent Tulsa’s solidly red district, which is currently held by Rep. Kevin Hern.

From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2026

But experts who work with children say that there is a long way to go before the system can properly implement the ideals the law preaches.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2026

Callans says he books car rentals through Costco all the time and preaches the savings to anyone who will listen, most recently his siblings in Chicago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

The doc’s a short man, round belly, don’t seem to practice what he preaches about eating right, but he’s got a kind heart, and he lays out some newspapers on his kitchen table.

From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

“We visited local villages, preached the word, sent in clothes for the needy, toys for the children.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Martin O'Neill sang their praises in the aftermath and preached caution ahead of the second leg, as he was obliged to do.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

Abdel-Rahman lived and preached in New Jersey before he was convicted in 1995 of seditious conspiracy in relation to the first bombing of the World Trade Center.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026

Civic engagement was not something they preached, it was how they lived.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026

Like her husband, Ida preached neither Democrat nor Republican but encouraged blacks to “vote for the advantage of ourselves and our race.”

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

“Go back and see what Jesus spends most of his time doing. It’s not preaching, it’s not teaching, it’s healing,” Mr. Talarico said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Though Awlaki's extremist preaching would come into sharper focus after 9/11, at the time the paintballing video was recorded he already had connections to al-Qaeda operatives and was shortly to be investigated by the FBI.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

As much as she was proud of where she was from, Dolly also spent the latter part of her years preaching and living out loud a sermon to her native region.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

A divide is growing over AI-assisted preaching in American churches.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

The preaching goes on, interrupted with dutiful “amens.”

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich




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