as in rhetoric
full of fine words and fancy expressions
an overwritten novel with far too many purple patches
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Recent Examples of purple
Also in the debris were pink, purple and light blue luggage decorated with stickers.
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Nadia Lathan, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2025
What led them to him wasn't a sound or a bark, but a purple flag fluttering in the wind.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
Throughout the day, baskets of white and purple flowers were brought in to decorate the venue, along with a piano, People reported.
—Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 27 June 2025
What divides us red and blue can certainly bring us together as purple to build a sound future for all our children.
—Naperville Sun, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2025
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Nadia Lathan, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2025
What led them to him wasn't a sound or a bark, but a purple flag fluttering in the wind.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
Throughout the day, baskets of white and purple flowers were brought in to decorate the venue, along with a piano, People reported.
—Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 27 June 2025
What divides us red and blue can certainly bring us together as purple to build a sound future for all our children.
—Naperville Sun, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for purple
Adjective
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Trump and Carter are hardly the first pair of presidents to pour rhetorical oil on troubled waters, but the historical results, as with today, are mixed at best.—
Bruce Yandle,
Twin Cities,
10 July 2025
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By asking Grok to use X posts as a primary source and rhetorical inspiration, xAI is sending the large language model into a toxic landscape where trolls, political propagandists, and outright racists are some of the loudest voices.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
8 July 2025
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Torry’s candidly dumpy, dingy, dated, wood panel lined courtroom allowed for the placement of contemporary art and the banging of nails into walls which would have been forbidden in one of the ornate ground floor courtrooms.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
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This restored 1600s-era piano nobile apartment in Venice’s Cannaregio district is a stunner with its Terrazzo floors and ornate plasterwork.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
8 July 2025
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“Purple.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purple. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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