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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 author also varies the texture of the book by inserting poems, quotations, dramatic dialogue, a veiled account of her unhappy days at boarding school, and a lengthy digression on the German mystic Friederike Hauffe, who claimed to be clairvoyant and to communicate with spirits.—
James Marcus,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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This crackling movie begins with what some might take for a bit of misdirection: a quotation from a poem by Arseny Tarkovsky, the father of the great filmmaker Andrei.—
Glenn Kenny,
New York Times,
29 May 2025
Noun
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This is a common early move for startups and works just as well in a family office context.—
Francois Botha,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2025
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For context, about 230,000 Minnesotans are enrolled in Medicaid, and over 440,000 people are enrolled in SNAP benefits.—
Rod Adams,
Essence,
25 May 2025
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Legal: Contract Intelligence Agents that review, redline, and analyze large numbers of documents for privilege, check citations for accuracy, or compare contracts to one another.—
Nikit Shah,
USA Today,
24 May 2025
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Conclusion While both strategies claim to operate under IRC §453, the similarities end with the code citation.—
Andre Pennington,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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Social media is leveraged to the fullest extent, with 30-40 second, high-impact sound bites from town halls or Q&As shared widely across Instagram, TikTok, and other social media platforms to improve reach.—
Dr. Mandy Cohen,
Time,
27 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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“Purple passage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purple%20passage. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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