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
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Noun
  • According to the Associated Press, Yale University’s list of 2024’s most notable quotations is, of course, ruled by Swift’s quip endorsing failed Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 4 Dec. 2024
  • The epigraph is a quotation from A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh series, and its extended opening thought experiment involves vampires.
    Alice Gregory, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • This is, after all, a stunt that falls into a broader context of both the history of pornography and the culture of online content creation.
    Jessie Sage, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Given this context, wouldn’t criticisms of the resistance seem misplaced?
    Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Some residents have also filed a petition with hopes of stopping the rebuilding of the Givaudan site in residential parts of the city after the plant and company's lengthy history, where previous explosions have occurred and city citations issued.
    Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Between January and April, about 54% of stops resulted in citations, compared to about 61% in the six months after the policy shift.
    Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post, 8 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Space Invaders In one of the final interviews of the relentless Wicked press tour, Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo were part of a sound bite that perhaps overshadows even the film itself.
    Kate Lindsay, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Here is the full sound bite of Green on Podziemski.
    Anthony Slater, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024

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“Purple passage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purple%20passage. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.

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