as in to urge
to try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action
the speaker exhorted the graduating students to go forth and try to make a difference in the world
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Bothwell exhorted the audience to submit emails to Mayor Todd Gloria and the city’s Development Services Department (which issues building permits) head Elyse Lowe.
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Steven Mihailovich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2025
At the same time, President Trump is exhorting operators in the United States as well as OPEC to pump more oil to bring down prices.
—Stanley Reed, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
Following pandemic supply disruptions, the Biden administration exhorted businesses to adjust their supply chains away from some Chinese production centers, actions that new tariffs on China might prompt as well.
—Tobias Burns, The Hill, 23 Jan. 2025
Some cynics are bound to exhort that this isn’t worth much of a hullabaloo.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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Steven Mihailovich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2025
At the same time, President Trump is exhorting operators in the United States as well as OPEC to pump more oil to bring down prices.
—Stanley Reed, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
Following pandemic supply disruptions, the Biden administration exhorted businesses to adjust their supply chains away from some Chinese production centers, actions that new tariffs on China might prompt as well.
—Tobias Burns, The Hill, 23 Jan. 2025
Some cynics are bound to exhort that this isn’t worth much of a hullabaloo.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Exhort.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exhort. Accessed 8 Apr. 2025.
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