as in restored
to free from moral guilt or blemish especially ceremonially
a day on which the faithful are expected to purge themselves of their sins through prayer and fasting
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Recent Examples of purged
The department booked 2,397 items into property and evidence and purged 2,487 items during the year, according to the report.
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Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 14 Apr. 2026
The Washington Post pointed out that last year at this time, the feds purged women and people of color from the boards that review the science and research happening at the National Institutes of Health— 38 out of 43 experts that were fired were women and minorities.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2026
Of the 44 officers selected to join the Communist Party’s top-leadership council, 40 have been purged or gone missing since mid-2023, Neil Thomas, a fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis, told me.
—Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2026
Trump has since purged both commissions of critics and appointed loyalists to take their places.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 31 Mar. 2026
The men and women of that department were doing their job and they were purged.
—ABC News, 29 Mar. 2026
Trucks needed full tanks of diesel but gas tanks of small generators and mess section field ranges had to be purged with nitrogen.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 29 Mar. 2026
Grenell was appointed interim director of the Kennedy Center in February 2025 after Trump purged the historic venue’s former leadership and inserted himself as chairman of the board.
—Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 13 Mar. 2026
Pristine lunar samples are stored and handled in stainless steel glove cabinets, separated by triple layers of gloves, and purged by high-purity nitrogen gas to reduce sample degradation.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 28 Feb. 2026
Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 14 Apr. 2026
The Washington Post pointed out that last year at this time, the feds purged women and people of color from the boards that review the science and research happening at the National Institutes of Health— 38 out of 43 experts that were fired were women and minorities.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2026
Of the 44 officers selected to join the Communist Party’s top-leadership council, 40 have been purged or gone missing since mid-2023, Neil Thomas, a fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis, told me.
—Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2026
Trump has since purged both commissions of critics and appointed loyalists to take their places.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 31 Mar. 2026
The men and women of that department were doing their job and they were purged.
—ABC News, 29 Mar. 2026
Trucks needed full tanks of diesel but gas tanks of small generators and mess section field ranges had to be purged with nitrogen.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 29 Mar. 2026
Grenell was appointed interim director of the Kennedy Center in February 2025 after Trump purged the historic venue’s former leadership and inserted himself as chairman of the board.
—Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 13 Mar. 2026
Pristine lunar samples are stored and handled in stainless steel glove cabinets, separated by triple layers of gloves, and purged by high-purity nitrogen gas to reduce sample degradation.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 28 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for purged
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Ground zero Last year, Glenn Roquemore, who chairs the education committee of the Flying Leathernecks Heritage Foundation, was searching for eager students to build the iconic Jenny plane, based off of one that had been crashed and never restored.—
Victoria Le,
Oc Register,
14 Apr. 2026
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Service was later restored on the Red Line as far north as the Thorndale stop in Edgewater, but not beyond.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
14 Apr. 2026
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My skin was quenched and cleansed at once, and Vargas’ fluency in her craft made the time absolutely fly by.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
15 Mar. 2026
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The goal in the West Bank is to create a homogenous ethnicity in a space that is being cleansed of Palestinians, and to expand the Israeli footprint there.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
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Once purified, the atmospheric sample enters an enrichment stage that significantly enhances the detectability of trace gases.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Mar. 2026
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Inside these trains, natural gas is purified and cooled to about –260 degrees Fahrenheit (–162 degrees Celsius), below the boiling point of methane.—
Stephanie Pappas,
Scientific American,
23 Mar. 2026
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In a low-oxygen environment—similar to that of tadpoles’ usual aquatic habitat—mice tissue healed better than when it was exposed to more oxygen.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
9 Apr. 2026
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Reese’s remarks also struck a fissure in her relationship with ownership and the front office that, per a league source, never successfully healed.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Apr. 2026
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Like much of the first half of the episode, before the plane crash, this gala sequence is shot in silky gold colors, as if John and Carolyn had already been sanctified.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
27 Mar. 2026
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That was until Pope Leo inadvertently sanctified them in 2026.—
Paul Keane,
Hartford Courant,
22 Feb. 2026
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“Purged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purged. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.
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