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“Think of them as a cross between a lentil and a velociraptor,” the National Society of Professional Surveyors, a group not normally known for purple prose, warns on its website.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Like Muse and Dots, Pickle agents appear customizable and cute: A promotional video showed off a purple creature with big, wide eyes named Gummy.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026

She has infused her suits and dresses with yellow, red, purple, or floral prints, keeping them structured yet light.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

She said the group was always on the lookout for new arrivals and had already recorded the willow emerald damselfly, the southern oak bush cricket and the purple emperor butterfly, as more species travelled north.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

And there’s a huge green splotch covering the bottom front part of my favorite purple flowered shirt.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

A palette of soft pinks, purples and blues lend warmth and dimension to Rana’s starkly beautiful home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

Le Particulier Miami – This newly opened Mid-Beach gem embraces Art Deco whimsy with pastel pinks and purples, brass accents and flamingo-covered wallpaper.

From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2026

“Mike took it and made it incredibly subtle: flesh with the violets and the purples and the pearlescence,” Del Toro says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025

They wore neutrals, greens blues and purples, evoking the light, earth and sea, the AFP news agency reported.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2025

Night flowers in dark purples and blues sprouted from the vines in the walls and even between the cracks in the wall.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

The more psalm-like accompaniments outweigh the purpler prose.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2021

He is swishing and spitting a Châteaneuf-du-Pape purpler than August berries.

From Slate ● May 5, 2012

Named for a mythical sunken city, Ys was a prouder, purpler record than Newsom's debut.

From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2010

He just stood there looking at Sam and getting purpler and purpler about the face.

From Short Cruises by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

Though a cloister now of the dusk-winged bat, 'Twas rich enough once, and the brothers grew fat, Looser in girdle and purpler in jowl, Singing good rest to the founder's lost soul.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various

We’re inviting readers to write their own over-the-top ode to the weather: Give us a paragraph about the recent heat wave, in your purplest prose.

From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2013

Last fortnight Critic Olin Downes paid Moriz Rosenthal homage in a nostalgic vein with the purplest passage in the modern, if not the entire, history of the New York Times.

From Time Magazine Archive

It achieved its purplest popularity between 1895 and 1900, was fading fast by 1914.

From Time Magazine Archive

The golden walls of this palace which I have built look down, enamoured of their reflection, into a lake of the choicest, purplest wine.

From The Purple Cloud by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel

The skies are at their bluest, now; the woods and fields are at their greenest; flowers are blooming their yellowest, and purplest, and scarletest.

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 21, August 20, 1870 by Various

But he came and he was full purpled out.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2023

Last summer at my local nursery, I was greeted by a single bushy flower: the blooms velvety, thick, purpled and plush.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2022

His leg is purpled with vivid rashes and lesions.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 29, 2019

On Sunday morning, a middle-aged female civil servant walked out of the Sule polling station and flashed her purpled little finger.

From Time ● Nov. 8, 2015

Clouds gathered, the sky purpled, and a breeze rose from the northwest.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

The greening, or purpling, of Los Angeles also involves these elements, but mostly water.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2022

Peering into the mirror, he hardly recognized himself, a 24-year-old man on crutches, stitches between his eyebrows, a gash above his ear, another on his forehead and a bruise purpling his cheek.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2015

In the film, they are wearing virginal white nightgowns and there is a gruesome close-up of their toenails, long and crusted on bloated purpling toes.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2010

In the purpling east, cumulus clouds bumped heads in a huddle.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then she stood, panting, staring at her wrecked hands until the sun set and the stars winked slyly in the purpling sky.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby