exhort
verb (used with object)
to urge, advise, or caution earnestly; admonish urgently.
are exhorting
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present progressiveof exhort.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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“They are exhorting people — in state government, in the private sector, at all levels — to pay more attention to conservation. I think that is generally working.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2023
In the transgender community, people who are eligible to change their gender under the current rules are exhorting one another not to wait to make the necessary applications for an updated passport.
From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2018
Amid this lawlessness, people smuggling has become a lucrative business and all parties involved, including coast guards, are exhorting migrants for money, Amnesty said.
From US News ● Jul. 1, 2016
Some environmentalists are exhorting people to combat the growing problem of harmful, invasive species by eating them.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2012
In Japan representatives of advanced Unitarianism are exhorting the Japanese Buddhists to build the religion of the future on their old foundations, and to avoid the propagandists of western Christianity.
From Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 by Ellinwood, Frank F.
