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
  • Additionally, several quotations attributed to the cited judicial opinions were phony and did not accurately represent those materials.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 14 May 2025
  • And this company took three months to give me the quotation for a simple BMX handlebar.
    Elizabeth Mendez, CBS News, 6 May 2025
Noun
  • Outraged, Anya tweeted at the museum that this was akin to saying, without additional context, that an Impressionist painting had been acquired in Vienna in 1942.
    Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • But agents are only as effective as the intelligence layer that connects to the context of the customer.
    Anand Shah, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • The academics also found that LGBTQ-friendly firms demonstrated an almost 25 percent increase in the number of patent citations, which is broadly considered an indication of how other companies value the innovativeness of a particular patent.
    Josie Cox, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
  • Vinson said the village is involved with ongoing litigation with the apartment owner over 170 previously issued citations.
    Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Most companies don’t like to promote their failures, and canceling Police Squad was undeniably a dumb move, so ABC/Disney is unlikely to want to resurrect the kind of sound bites like in the article linked above.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 13 June 2025
  • Slamming Trump is Democrats’ favorite hobby, and whipping up a frenzy over retirement funds and Social Security payments makes for good sound bites aimed at the base.
    Boston Herald editorial staff, Boston Herald, 8 June 2025

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