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Recent Examples of purple passage
Writers inevitably fall in love with their more purple passages.
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Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for purple passage
Noun
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Dates and quotations were unreachable, every fact revised.Daisy Hildyard, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
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Images and objects are human embodiments of divine attributes while words are said to be direct quotations of God.Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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Authored by two veteran space writers with unique insights into the topic, 'Star Bound' offers up the story of Americans in space with a focus on the cultural and societal contexts of the country’s most important missions rather than engineering and technical minutiae.Jeff Spry, Space.com, 31 Dec. 2024
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The context of the emails contained racist, misogynistic, and homophobic slurs.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
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Those citations came after a dispute with a neighbor and concerns about their on-site operations.Jim Riccioli, Journal Sentinel, 16 Dec. 2024
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Advertisement The citation represents an effort by Cal/OSHA to better enforce heat standards after fielding criticism that the agency been beset by inadequate staffing and claims of ineffectiveness.Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
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But getting there is going to require a lot more than a catchy slogan and some sound bites.Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 9 Jan. 2025
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The dude was a nonstop hype video in human form, talking himself up in sound bite after sound bite.Dalton Ross, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Purple passage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purple%20passage. Accessed 14 Jan. 2025.
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