proselytize

Pratt needed to proselytize — not preach to the choir.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

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

“To proselytize means to preach a certain way of thinking, in this case the cause of the Survivalists,” I answer, mentally calculating distance and time.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

He’s already been volunteering at Echo Park and some community gardens, weeding and mulching while he proselytizes about the curative power of growing your own food.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2023

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

President Jeffrey Holland went to Israel and pledged last August that any Mormon teacher or student who proselytizes will be sent home.

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

Houston proselytized for Inuit art, bringing it to international museum audiences and founding what would become Kinngait Studios.

From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2022

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

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2020

Her reporting indicates that it's food media elites like you and me and others who have proselytized the most about brining.

From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2018

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

Why should freedom favor proselytizing faiths over those that don’t seek converts?

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

Within five years, the chant “Hare Krishna” was everywhere: among throngs of devotees proselytizing in airports; in “Hair”; in a No. 1 hit song by George Harrison.

From New York Times ● May 22, 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

Despite the proselytizing of the Mbekela brothers, my father remained aloof from Christianity and instead reserved his own faith for the great spirit of the Xhosas, Qamata, the God of his fathers.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela