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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
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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
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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
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The Potential Of Reality Capture To Help Your Business For many businesses, having digital representation and spatial context of physical assets can be profound.—
Ronald Bisio,
Forbes.com,
13 May 2025
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Take a look at how the Galaxy S25+ performed against key competition for some context: The Edge supports 5G (sub-6GHz, C-band, and mmWave), Bluetooth 5.4, NFC, and Wi-Fi 7 for connectivity, which puts it on par with its stablemates and most premium flagship phones.—
Iyaz Akhtar,
PC Magazine,
13 May 2025
Noun
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In the careless driving citation on Feb. 7, 2023, police said Hayes was operating his vehicle inattentively and unaware of the surroundings.—
Adam Lichtenstein,
Sun Sentinel,
12 May 2025
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An accelerant was found on Dustin's shoes and in different parts of the house, including near his sons' bodies, according to an arrest citation obtained by WHAS 11.—
Jenna Sundel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 May 2025
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The best sound bites of the day: Sign up for USA TODAY's Entertainment newsletter.—
KiMi Robinson,
USA Today,
9 May 2025
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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 27 May. 2025.
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