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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
My heart sinks, and my blood turns into pure nerves.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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
Microgravity manufacturing will allow purer and more-uniform crystals, alloys and drug compounds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 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 furnace will work by melting mostly scrap steel, with other purer forms also being added in order to achieve specialist grades of the metal.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2025
But for the moment, Christmas bided its time outside, a purer presence.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
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
“Those who truly knew him understood that his art was one of the purest reflections of who he was.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026
He placed his hands on either side of a single bar and concentrated on locating the purest particles of ore.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
