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Recent Examples of purl
The two halves of the hook move independently, enabling the device to knit or purl depending on which part picks up the first loop.
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Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2025
Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for purl
Verb
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Simmer, stirring or swirling the skillet occasionally, until butter turns golden brown and smells nutty, about 5 minutes.—
Katlyn Moncada,
Better Homes & Gardens,
10 Nov. 2025
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Rumors swirled that Bella and Connor were estranged from their adoptive mother due to their ties to the Church of Scientology.—
StyleCaster Editors,
StyleCaster,
10 Nov. 2025
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The program’s effects ripple through grocery aisles and beyond, said Lindsey Haynes-Maslow, a health policy researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.—
JOSÉ LUIS VILLEGAS,
Sacbee.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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When habitats sit close together, a single weak link can ripple across bird routes, pollinator paths, and seed banks.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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The perfectly transparent water looks light turquoise and is completely free of plants because roots can’t take hold in the bubbling flow.—
Aaron Randolph,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Nov. 2025
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The market’s internal weakness bubbled to the surface slightly on Tuesday.—
Sarah Min,
CNBC,
4 Nov. 2025
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Moses’s book eddies around with the energy of someone reporting back from a very long and strange evening clicking through Wikipedia links, enjoying every chance to add a tangent.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
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The Super Bowl was the leviathan in whose eddying wake the pilot fish feed.—
Nick Paumgarten,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
Verb
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With its idyllic front lawn, gurgling fountain, and two-story deck, Elmwood 1820 Bed & Breakfast Inn is a sight to behold.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
26 Aug. 2025
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There are less than seven minutes between our last ever glimpse of Carrie Bradshaw, dancing down her palatial hallway in thousands of dollars of head-to-toe pink, and a gurgling geyser of feces spewing straight up into our collectively horrified faces.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
14 Aug. 2025
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The 6-foot-10 junior scored inside, then stripped the ball from Leopold Levillain at midcourt and dribbled the remaining 45 feet to the basket, scored and was fouled.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Nov. 2025
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Dudinha opened the scoring for San Diego, dribbling through the Current defense before blazing a shot through the legs of her Brazilian compatriot, Lorena.—
Daniel Sperry,
Kansas City Star,
2 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Pick a distant parking spot at the grocery store, for example, or walk laps around the field while your child is at soccer practice.—
Jamie Ducharme,
Health,
4 Nov. 2025
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Small, viscous waves lapped against the shore, the swell leaving behind a brown shelf of decaying organic matter.—
David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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Employees unable to properly wash their hands and food storage units that can’t keep the hot food hot or the cold food cold got a West Miami-Dade bakery in hot water with state inspectors.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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After assisting a customer, an employee put on gloves and scooped ice from the ice machine without washing their hands.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Purl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purl. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.
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