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At Uber and elsewhere, managers with small teams are vulnerable in the push to purge management ranks, my colleague Chip Cutter reports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

"Could it work a week after infection? Two weeks? How far can you go after infection, and still purge the virus?"

From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026

And in its zeal to purge the newsroom of dissent, CBS and Weiss may have inadvertently triggered the creation of their most dangerous future competitor — and accidentally set the stage for its own undoing.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

They have been dreaming of a revolution which will remake Myanmar as a more democratic and inclusive country, and purge the armed forces from politics.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

Elnora and I ministered to her with the juice of bitter roots and crushed flowers to purge her foul humors and ease the pains in her head.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

Similarly, the Independent has the headline: "Burnham vows to be 'circuit-breaker' PM as he purges cabinet".

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

Since taking power in 2012, Xi has used anticorruption purges to consolidate control and advance plans to modernize a military that hasn’t fought a full-scale war since 1979, when China battled Vietnam.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

The purges leave a leadership vacuum in China’s top ranks that was put on full display at legislative meetings in Beijing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

"The detention of Zhang Youxia was the capstone arrest of the greatest series of purges in the history of China's PLA," experts from the Center for Strategic and International Studies wrote in a note.

From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026

But—though this was one of the crimes that the accused in the great purges invariably confessed to—it was difficult to imagine any such thing actually happening.

From "1984" by George Orwell

Previously purged under Mao Zedong's regime, Zhu was brought back into the fold after Mao's death in 1976.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Maybe you could call it a tea party wokeness, purged of pedants and scolds.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

An economic planner and later an engineer at the State Planning Commission, Zhu was purged twice during the tumultuous early decades of the People's Republic.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

Much of the agency’s senior leadership has been purged, and the scientific ranks have been hollowed out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

When the eldest son was gone Wang Lung felt the house was purged of some surcharge of unrest and it was a relief to him.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

Plus, the dangers of purging middle managers and the volatile finances of America’s millionaire pilots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

“Is he purging not just perfectly competent people, but highly competent people, the people you would want in your foxhole?” he asks.

From Salon ● May 1, 2026

But I do think this particular controversy has tapped into something deeper, purging a spiritual angst that has long surrounded liberal culture.

From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2026

“It was a dictatorship that worked from a perspective of building certain legitimacy, keeping the congress functioning, but of course, after purging dissent,” explains the Brazilian historian.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026

How had any of these books escaped the purging fires ten years ago?

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas