purple
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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
OpenAI showcased the cast of pink, blue, green, yellow and purple characters with names including Iggy, Felipe, Jojo, Todd and Alfred, at an event in San Francisco.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 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
Only five months later, two researchers working independently managed to identify the first word: πορφύραc, the Greek word for purple.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
Just as the sky was fading from black to purple, my hands and arms were almost back to normal and they slipped out of the ropes.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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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
Watching and capturing the vivid purples, reds and greens of the Northern Lights in skies across the UK has become a bucket-list experience for many people in recent years.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 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
Dancers wear pants and tops, adorned with fringe, in glowing purples and reds that bleed right into Christopher S. Chambers’s moody lighting.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2024
He had been fascinated by the colors of the desert, the blues, the purples, the yellows of the minerals lying on the surface of the earth.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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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
The empurpled Alloway grew purpler at the sight of a coolness he did not share.
From The Admirable Tinker Child of the World by Edgar Jepson
Death-dull from feet to hair and graveward shoved From royalty to that degraded state But purpler pomp!
From Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems by Madison Julius Cawein
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
It achieved its purplest popularity between 1895 and 1900, was fading fast by 1914.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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"Sent me in a cab, as if I were his valet," said Randal, "to fetch his newest and purplest raiment from his beastly little flat."
From Ambrotox and Limping Dick by Oliver Fleming
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
Then it rose redly into the purpled sky, resembling a black eye.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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Although her name has been bandied about as a potential Democratic gubernatorial candidate in purpling Georgia, Willis said she’s dreaming of a future away from politics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
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
Off in the distance gleamed San Francisco Bay; beyond it, looming out of the sea itself, was Mount Tamalpais, its summit aswirl with purpling, swiftly scudding clouds.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The blue smoke from the house chimney hung in flat layers in the purpling ranch-cup.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
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