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Recent Examples of purple passageWriters inevitably fall in love with their more purple passages.—Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
Below is the text of the Fifteenth Amendment, annotated with scholarship from JSTOR to provide historical context and research.
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JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Oct. 2025
The chairman claimed his words had been taken out of context, but his comments were splashed across the back of the newspapers and caused a storm of controversy.
But Sandberg played alongside some all-time talkers such as Mark Grace and Sammy Sosa, and he was considered a quiet Cub who didn’t give great sound bites for TV or controversial quotes for the print media.
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Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
29 July 2025
No longer are the great and the good moving through a gauntlet of photographers at a speed of their choosing, tossing off a sound bite here or there before high-tailing.
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