pure
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As a lover of pure football with the emphasis placed firmly on attack, he may have enjoyed it anyway.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
His interactions with Holmes are pure cringe comedy, like when she starts to cry perhaps a bit on cue and he stiffly sputters, “Do you want, like, a tissue?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
It’s not a pure apples-to-apples comparison, to be fair.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
"If you start out with pure vanilla ice cream but start mixing in sprinkles soon after, it won't be long until you can no longer find any pristine, plain, vanilla ice cream," Zhu said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
Ama’s face can only be described as pure, undiluted panic.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
"I think young people in the village and, actually, myself, aren't as strong-spirited as in the past... People were purer," she said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Mr. Vance fulminates: “Never have I read a purer distillation of our worship at the altar of commerce.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
But it was LACMA’s CEO Michael Govan who persuaded him to preserve the purer approach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026
The team proposed that heavy, salt-rich ice embedded within purer ice could slowly descend through the shell, recycling surface material and delivering nutrients to the ocean.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 23, 2026
It seemed to me that the very air had become purer with the change.
From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang
That philosophy was designed before Guardiola's appointment, and the Spaniard produced the purest form of City's footballing ideology.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
There was, however, “a serpent lurking in the long grass”—to wit, Thatcher, for whom Mr. Kidd has the purest loathing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
"This work reflects a philosophy of chemistry that's designed to accelerate drug discovery in its purest form," says Moses.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
Skip the next two paragraphs if you want to hold onto the film’s purest pleasures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
Now, I know that’s pathetic in just about its purest form, but there’s no way I can deal with this kind of thing so early I need experience with this.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
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