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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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Containing more than 100 original artifacts, the installation features quotations from the Franks, along with objects from their personal histories: furniture, friendship albums, correspondence, a Torah.—
Laurel Graeber,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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Some of the messages in his work are explicit, writ large in huge quotations drawn from the writings of Richard Rohr, Dorothy Day, St. Therese and others.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
11 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Those are questions increasingly posed over the past two years, changing the meaning of diversity in the context of judicial nominations.—
Mark Pazniokas,
Hartford Courant,
25 Jan. 2025
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Historians would be called in to provide context, and every social-media app would be trembling with outrage.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
The New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Cole Ellison, 28, of Worchester Street in Siloam Springs was released from custody on citation after his arrest.—
Tracy Neal,
arkansasonline.com,
20 Jan. 2025
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Creole Soul Restaurant and Bar, 2026 Broadway in Sacramento, had 10 citations on Wednesday, Jan. 15.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacramento Bee,
17 Jan. 2025
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Political messages are often stripped of nuance, reduced to sound bites that can easily be shared and reshared.—
Monica Alvarez-Mitchell,
Forbes,
24 Oct. 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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“Purple passage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purple%20passage. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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