PURLS Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

purls

verb

present tense third-person singular of purl

as in swirls

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But unlike when Kruger first started producing conceptual art some five decades ago, similar language now swirls all around us more than ever.

— Amy Verner, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2026
Max Martin, Grande sings of blowing through breakups and make-ups and enduring mounting exhaustion with mass notoriety while the music swirls patiently and frequently angrily underneath.

— Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of swirls

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Then the flesh inexplicably ripples around him, reminding us whose home this actually is.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2026
One of the more surreal responses to that experience is applause, which ripples through the audience of Paranormal Activity a beat after all the major scares, like rain settling in after a peal of thunder.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of ripples

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The worst bubbles form in industries that offer little in the way of innovation and are financed mainly by debt.

— RUCHIR SHARMA, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2026
Released three years after the similarly freewheeling Nekkuja, the album bubbles over with interdimensional ambition and zigzagging ideas, anchored by her ability to command bewildering expanses of melody and form.

— Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of bubbles

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The England midfielder then dribbles past Anderson, which prompts Fernandez to drop and perform his team-mate’s role.

— Ahmed Walid, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Fourteen-year-old Karam dribbles a blue, yellow and white football down a sandy path in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza.

— Sana Noor Haq, CNN Money, 5 July 2026

Definition of dribbles

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Selena is offended, and splashes him with the liquid, which burns and kills him.

— William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2026
In this photograph snapped by astronomer José Rodrigues, the Milky Way splashes across the night sky above two telescopes at ESO's La Silla Observatory.

— Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of splashes

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