pure
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And yet fans suspend their cynicism for a few hours — for a tournament, for a season — because they know that the communion that soccer offers is pure and holy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
She said the look on the teenager's face was one of "pure hatred".
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
“With a pure play, I can go after something like Marvell—those smaller companies that maybe a lot of people haven’t heard of,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
The former was purpose-driven, with check boxes next to each book; the latter, pure fantasy that was much more inspirational than acquisitive.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
The techno music doesn’t seem to be confusing this thing—it flies with pure determination.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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
There, in microgravity, the miniature labs grow molecular crystals that are purer than those produced in Earth’s gravity for use in pharmaceuticals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026
“This time, the move is happening despite substantial economic resilience and is a much purer reflection” of the increased risk investors associate with the dollar, “building on weakening confidence about the greenback,” they wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 2, 2026
The purer and more ordered a semiconductor is, the better it works.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2025
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
Music is perhaps the purest of these art forms, tapping into our lizard brains to regulate our emotions that are seeking to make sense of this precious yet maddening existence.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026
It’s the purest demonstration of what it means to bring together subjective lived experience and academic knowledge.
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
"A stone of this colour and size is extremely scarce, and adding to its rarity the diamond is type Ia, amongst the purest of natural gems," it said.
From Barron's ● May 13, 2026
“I was just writing poems about my crazy-ass family. It’s just so wild that the purest parts of me, the most nooks and crannies, are the ones that people connect with the most,” Salgado said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
The Occamy is aggressive to all who approach it, particularly in defence of its eggs, whose shells are made of the purest, softest silver.
From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling
