proselytizes

verb

present tense third-person singular of proselytize
as in converts
to persuade to change to one's religious faith the efforts of early missionaries to proselytize the Native Americans of Minnesota were largely unproductive

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Recent Examples of proselytizes Opponents have argued that hanging the Ten Commandments in classrooms proselytizes to students and amounts to religious indoctrination by the government. — ABC News, 21 Apr. 2026
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  • In a recommender, an item that never converts gets down-ranked.
    — Dvir Ginzburg, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2026
  • The software also converts Office documents and images into PDFs, with batch processing available for multiple files.
    — StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026
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“Proselytizes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proselytizes. Accessed 29 Oct. 2026.

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