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purism

[pyoor-iz-uhm] / ˈpjʊər ɪz əm /




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Frankel’s dispatches showcase the culinary world’s relative lack of purism about the dish.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

Stanford’s self-proclaimed ecological purism doesn’t mean he believes we should do away with nonnative species altogether, though.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024

An expanded version of the album included some radical electronic remixes of songs that had been hand-played, signaling that Porridge Radio had no interest in guitar-band purism.

From New York Times ● May 18, 2022

But I do employ a similar sense of purism about the general strategy.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 25, 2021

The third party took the name of Peter, or Cephas, as in their Hebrew purism they preferred to call him.

From The Life of St. Paul by James Stalker




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