purple passage

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Recent Examples of purple passage Writers inevitably fall in love with their more purple passages. Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for purple passage
Noun
  • The book is a fun pile of quotations from Post employees and other voices on the paper’s past half century.
    Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
  • These records are more reliable than ones produced and published later—especially by entities remote from the action, as with the 2022 Russian list of quotations—because of the risk of alteration.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • This is a common early move for startups and works just as well in a family office context.
    Francois Botha, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025
  • For context, about 230,000 Minnesotans are enrolled in Medicaid, and over 440,000 people are enrolled in SNAP benefits.
    Rod Adams, Essence, 25 May 2025
Noun
  • Legal: Contract Intelligence Agents that review, redline, and analyze large numbers of documents for privilege, check citations for accuracy, or compare contracts to one another.
    Nikit Shah, USA Today, 24 May 2025
  • Conclusion While both strategies claim to operate under IRC §453, the similarities end with the code citation.
    Andre Pennington, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • The best sound bites of the day: Sign up for USA TODAY's Entertainment newsletter.
    KiMi Robinson, USA Today, 9 May 2025
  • The pauses in the onslaught count as much as the sheer array of sound bites cutting through the production.
    Michaelangelo Matos, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2025

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“Purple passage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purple%20passage. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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