purple

If he doesn’t, markets won’t stop trying to guess what he’s thinking: they’ll just rely on other Fed officials’ commentaries, some random bit of data, the latest version of purple traffic cones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

James set the league all-time scoring record while wearing the purple and gold, but his eight seasons with the Lakers also included failures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

He fumed when a group member suggested printing ‘Stop AI’ on purple shirts rather than red.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

Clad in pink and purple and wielding a pink power drill, Liu Xingyun, founder of Shero, deftly took an air conditioner to bits when AFP accompanied her on a recent home visit.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

The purple bags under his eyes make him look exhausted.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

A palette of soft pinks, purples and blues lend warmth and dimension to Rana’s starkly beautiful home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

Anthocyanins, found in berries, red cabbage and purple carrots, provide the deep reds, purples and blues we associate with these foods.

From Salon ● Jan. 20, 2025

Dancers wear pants and tops, adorned with fringe, in glowing purples and reds that bleed right into Christopher S. Chambers’s moody lighting.

From New York Times ● May 15, 2024

But don’t tell that to the intrepid folks who found places to see the pinks and purples in Southern California.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2024

Some of the purples blushed faintly pink, others were tinted pale blue, but there was no other color.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

The more psalm-like accompaniments outweigh the purpler prose.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2021

He is swishing and spitting a Châteaneuf-du-Pape purpler than August berries.

From Slate ● May 5, 2012

Named for a mythical sunken city, Ys was a prouder, purpler record than Newsom's debut.

From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2010

Montague thought that the Major's face grew redder every day, and the purple veins in it purpler; or was it that the old gentleman's shirt bosom gleamed more brightly in the glare of the lights?

From The Metropolis by Sinclair, Upton

Darden grew something purpler in the face, and, rumbling oaths, went over to the three beneath the oak.

From Audrey by Johnston, Mary

We’re inviting readers to write their own over-the-top ode to the weather: Give us a paragraph about the recent heat wave, in your purplest prose.

From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2013

Last fortnight Critic Olin Downes paid Moriz Rosenthal homage in a nostalgic vein with the purplest passage in the modern, if not the entire, history of the New York Times.

From Time Magazine Archive

It achieved its purplest popularity between 1895 and 1900, was fading fast by 1914.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Well, he's the purplest plum I ever saw," said Dawn.

From Some Everyday Folk and Dawn by Franklin, Miles

These receptacles were filled and hidden with the largest, purplest, and most fragrant violets Marise had ever seen, and their amethyst tones, massed against the dark, rose-brown wood, produced an exquisite effect.

From Vision House by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

But he came and he was full purpled out.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2023

Last summer at my local nursery, I was greeted by a single bushy flower: the blooms velvety, thick, purpled and plush.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2022

On Sunday morning, a middle-aged female civil servant walked out of the Sule polling station and flashed her purpled little finger.

From Time ● Nov. 8, 2015

Tumblr, meanwhile, is awash in pretty pictures of purpled nebulas and vintage anatomy diagrams.

From Newsweek ● Feb. 11, 2015

Uncle Vernon’s face purpled once more, and Aunt Petunia started chewing her tongue again.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

In that race, Cox narrowly defeated three-term Rep. David Valadao, a Hanford Republican, and flipped the Central Valley’s purpling 22nd Congressional District from GOP control.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2024

The greening, or purpling, of Los Angeles also involves these elements, but mostly water.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2022

In the film, they are wearing virginal white nightgowns and there is a gruesome close-up of their toenails, long and crusted on bloated purpling toes.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2010

It wasn't that he "doubted the truth" of the memo, he told a purpling Senator McClellan.

From Time Magazine Archive

He held back even then until the bloated colonel with the big fat mustache whirled upon him savagely with a purpling face, and then he offered the explanation that made him immortal.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller