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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

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

From Washington Post Jul. 25, 2021

He added: "The EU needs a new playbook for dealing with neighbours, one that involves pragmatic solutions between friends, not the imposition of one side's rules on the other and legal purism."

From BBC Jun. 6, 2021

Like them, he wanted professional success, public office, and the ordinary rewards of American life; and like them, he bears no trace of political or moral purism.

From The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly




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