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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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Is that a genuine quotation, however, or is Lang merely fooling with us?—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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The school alleged in the lawsuit that Phillips’ counsel later sent LAFS a demand letter that included quotations from his conversations with Heavener and Tammy Elliott, the school’s president.—
Gene Maddaus,
Variety,
23 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In the context of AI…enterprise AI will follow a familiar path as previous technological waves.—
Nick Tzitzon,
Fortune,
18 Oct. 2025
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Even when companies move quickly to patch vulnerabilities, clever attackers find new ways to exploit integrations and context memory.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
18 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The play landed Satter a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Drama Desk Award for unique theatrical experience and an Obie Award for special citation, conceiving and direction in 2020.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
17 Oct. 2025
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Press mentions, quality backlinks and the frequency of my proprietary frameworks’ citations indicate whether our narrative is resonating and relevant.—
Rolling Stone Culture Council,
Rolling Stone,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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But Sandberg played alongside some all-time talkers such as Mark Grace and Sammy Sosa, and he was considered a quiet Cub who didn’t give great sound bites for TV or controversial quotes for the print media.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
29 July 2025
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No longer are the great and the good moving through a gauntlet of photographers at a speed of their choosing, tossing off a sound bite here or there before high-tailing.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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“Purple passage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purple%20passage. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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