exhortations

noun

plural of exhortation
as in recommendations
a statement that strongly urges someone to do or avoid doing something Despite her parents' exhortations to spend responsibly, she blew most of her savings on an expensive sports car.

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Recent Examples of exhortations Their exhortations to get rich quick, drive fast cars and aggressively treat women as property are followed by millions of people online. — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 22 July 2026 Advertisement While Pulisic is no recluse—he’ll go to an occasional nice dinner with friends—exhortations to step out more go mostly unheeded. — Sean Gregory, Time, 7 May 2026 Then the speakers’ exhortations to excellence would build in emotional intensity until women began to weep and the meeting erupted in spontaneous pledges to set new personal bests. — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026 Passages range from the creation of the world to bloody battles and apocalyptic destruction, from exhortations to love of God, neighbor and the needy to passages telling of Jesus' life, death and resurrection. — ABC News, 21 Apr. 2026 But also as promised, the show was all about joy, optimism and self-belief, and if her monologues occasionally veered into self-care exhortations, that was perfectly on brand as well. — Jem Aswad, Variety, 17 Apr. 2026 Caminero’s sprint included several mid-stride hops and fist pumps and exhortations to the crowd. — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026 Trump’s exhortations to the oil industry dovetail with a broader push to address cost-of-living concerns weighing heavily on Republicans’ bid to maintain control of Congress in November’s midterm elections. — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas Morning News, 10 Jan. 2026 In Queen Mother, Farmer takes a clear-eyed look at Moore’s foibles, noting her absenteeism during her son’s formative years, her embrace of patriarchal hierarchy in Black communities, and her exhortations for Black women to embrace polygyny to facilitate nation building. — Dara T. Mathis, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for exhortations
  1. recommendations
  2. suggestions
Noun
  • The recommendations of top Wall Street analysts can help inform investors in their search for attractive stocks from the vast universe of dividend-paying companies.
    — TipRanks.com Staff, CNBC, 30 Aug. 2026
  • What taxpayers should know Our editors independently choose our recommendations.
    — Jamela Adam, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of recommendations
Noun
  • Alicia McCalla, 56, a fiction writer who has been doing voice work for five years out of her home in Atlanta, decided to ignore union suggestions and clone her voice.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Gates brushed aside the idea that his suggestions might draw pushback from the accelerationist voices in the tech industry.
    — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of suggestions

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“Exhortations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exhortations. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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