proselytized
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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
He proselytized about police and power, quoting icons more typically associated with social-justice activism: Saul Alinsky, the self-described “professional radical,” and Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave and abolitionist.
From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2021
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
I knew that Gaur was a member of the party, but he had never proselytized for it.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
