purging

Example Sentences

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They’re not fixing the business model, but rather purging the patients who make it look broken.

From MarketWatch

In the days following the story’s publication, lawmakers and animal advocates called on the state’s Food and Agriculture Department to stop “destroying evidence” of the deceptive practices by purging the records.

From Los Angeles Times

She added: "Winter mortality of lambs removes inbred individuals, removes bad genes, so the flock has this purging thing the whole time which I don't think we would be able to organise."

From BBC

We have got used to Amorim speaking from the heart and, in explaining why he said what he did at Grimsby, it was as though he was purging himself.

From BBC

Previous leaders had made a show of purging dozens or even hundreds of police officers that they claimed were rotten.

From Los Angeles Times