A presentation has an audience and a purpose, and "presented" names neither. Match the verb to the purpose: delivered or spoke for a talk, pitched or proposed when you wanted a yes, briefed or reported when you shared results, taught or facilitated when people came to learn.
When you gave a talk: synonyms for presented
Delivered
Talks, lectures, keynotes; add the event and audience size.
Spoke
Use it with "at": spoke at three industry conferences.
Addressed
A large or senior audience: a conference, a board, a town hall.
Lectured
Academic and teaching settings; formal.
Presented research at a national conference.
Delivered a talk on low-cost water filtration at the ACS national meeting; two labs requested the protocol and one joined the follow-up study.
When you wanted a decision or a sale: synonyms for presented
Pitched
Selling an idea, product or project; add the outcome.
Proposed
Formal recommendations for a new plan, budget or policy.
Recommended
You advised a course of action and it was taken.
Advocated
Arguing for something against resistance.
Presented a proposal to the city council.
Pitched a protected bike-lane pilot to the city council with 14 months of crash data; it passed 6–1 and opened the following spring.
When you taught or trained a group: synonyms for presented
Taught
Classes and workshops; say how many and how often.
Trained
Job skills for staff or clients.
Facilitated
Workshops where the group did the work and you ran it.
Hosted
Webinars, events or sessions you organized and fronted.
Presented workshops for local businesses.
Taught monthly bookkeeping workshops at the public library for small-business owners; 40 attendees became clients of the practice over two years.
Leave these in the thesaurus
Skip "orated" and "expounded"; both are accurate, and both sound like a lecture nobody asked for.
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