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
  • Each fin features quotations cherry-picked from a century of glowing Phantom press reviews.
    Howard Walker, Robb Report, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Is that a genuine quotation, however, or is Lang merely fooling with us?
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Below is the text of the Fifteenth Amendment, annotated with scholarship from JSTOR to provide historical context and research.
    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.
    Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • His only local court citation, for an expired registration tag, was dismissed in 1998.
    Nora O'Neill, Charlotte Observer, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Fry is not yet aware of any citations issued to hunters in Wyoming who were relying on AI for information.
    Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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.
    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.
    Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025

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

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