pure
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"Pure theatre," said McInnes, later, of the home crowd, "What a noise it was."
From BBC • May 4, 2026
Pure gold is virtually indestructible and doesn’t rust.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
It was 1997 and his company Pure Software had just been acquired.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
The Invesco S&P 500 Pure Growth exchange-traded fund, which currently counts Sandisk and Micron among its top 10 holdings, rose by 3.2% Wednesday.
From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026
Pure mathematics does indeed deal with certainties, but its applications are only as good as the underlying empirical assumptions, simplifications, and estimations that go into them.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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