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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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There followed a war of quotations.—
Charlie Tyson,
The Atlantic,
27 Apr. 2026
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Half of them could be subject to quotations in half-penny increments and the other half would remain a control group at full penny increments.—
Lydia Beyoud,
Bloomberg,
20 Apr. 2026
Noun
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His saves may prove deeply significant in the wider context of the season.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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No longer in the context of the coffee shop, the manager looked uncomfortable and out of place, his power diminished, an average guy in a bad suit, who had had to take time off from his job to come downtown to a federal office in an Art Deco building.—
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh,
New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Starting May 14, drivers who fail to stop for a school bus with its stop arm extended will be issued a $225 citation.—
Ivan Taylor,
CBS News,
2 May 2026
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He was twice awarded the commissioner’s unit citation — for saving the lives of multiple residents during a six-alarm fire in 1998, and for rescuing several people trapped in a bus with severe roof damage in 2013.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
2 May 2026
Noun
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Stand-ups, sound bites, and B-roll are the three elements needed for a good story.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
16 Apr. 2026
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On top of the bigoted sound bites from public officials that routinely make national news, it is deeply entrenched in America’s political discourse and local governance.—
Connor Letourneau,
San Francisco Chronicle,
11 Apr. 2026
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“Purple passage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purple%20passage. Accessed 4 May. 2026.
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