Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for purple passages
Noun
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Dates and quotations were unreachable, every fact revised.—
Daisy Hildyard,
The New Yorker,
15 Dec. 2024 -
The notable quotations list, compiled each year by Fred Shapiro, an associate director at the Yale Law Library, is a supplement to The New Yale Book of Quotations, which is edited by Shapiro and published by Yale University Press.—
Dave Collins,
Hartford Courant,
3 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Whether a customer is reading your email newsletter, scrolling through your social media or reading a blog post, your brand voice should be recognizable—just adapted slightly for different contexts.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes,
3 Jan. 2025
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Culture develops over time and is what enables creating mechanisms to promote cohesion and the ability to respond to challenging contexts.—
Esade Business & Law School,
Forbes,
30 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Lengthy documents on their websites take on the various questionable health assertions and myths point by point with citations for studies and research to back them up.—
Jan Ellen Spiegel,
Hartford Courant,
24 Dec. 2024
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As part of the settlement agreement, OSHA dismissed nine of the citations and Amazon accepted one, Amazon spokesperson Maureen Lynch Vogel said.—
Julia Shapero,
The Hill,
20 Dec. 2024
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