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As a lover of pure football with the emphasis placed firmly on attack, he may have enjoyed it anyway.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

His interactions with Holmes are pure cringe comedy, like when she starts to cry perhaps a bit on cue and he stiffly sputters, “Do you want, like, a tissue?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

“It’s hard to justify a high valuation multiple for a U.S. shipbuilder like Philly from a foreign buyer, based on pure economics,” said Basil Karatzas, head of consulting firm Karatzas Marine Advisors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

It’s not a pure apples-to-apples comparison, to be fair.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

Suddenly Richard closes his eyes and a look of pure sadness comes across his face.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

"I think young people in the village and, actually, myself, aren't as strong-spirited as in the past... People were purer," she said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

One of Parton’s first forays into purer pop, this single has the stomp and shuffle of funk and could easily be retrofitted into disco DJ sets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

The Middle East supplies about a fifth of the world’s jet fuel, a form of kerosene that is purer and can withstand the freezing temperatures at cruise altitudes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

“This time, the move is happening despite substantial economic resilience and is a much purer reflection” of the increased risk investors associate with the dollar, “building on weakening confidence about the greenback,” they wrote.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 2, 2026

I believed he was naturally a man of better tendencies, higher principles, and purer tastes than such as circumstances had developed, education instilled, or destiny encouraged.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

There was, however, “a serpent lurking in the long grass”—to wit, Thatcher, for whom Mr. Kidd has the purest loathing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

His mute misadventures are the purest expression of animation’s freedom to do and draw anything.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

That’s the kind of animal electricity that points us toward our purest selves.

From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026

"This work reflects a philosophy of chemistry that's designed to accelerate drug discovery in its purest form," says Moses.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026

It was the purest black you could imagine, Sanders said, the kind of clock-stopping black that God must’ve had in mind when he sat down to invent blackness.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien