purvey

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Many of us thought that making blue verification checkmarks available for purchase would lead to an impersonation free-for-all and severely degrade Twitter’s ability to purvey good information.

From Slate • Feb. 6, 2023

A generation earlier, they were “the first to popularly purvey African-American spirituals in concert,” making a great impact in an 1872 American tour and a widely celebrated European tour in 1873.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2021

Carol ends up at a ramshackle New Mexican community of fellow-sufferers, who purvey the mantra of self-love.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 4, 2019

But the question is in the execution of these new plots, and specifically how ardently this spinoff will purvey a skewed image of justice’s inner workings, as is the tendency of Wolf’s other work.

From Salon • Sep. 5, 2018

Less and less every year are the nerves and muscles, the restless activities of arms and legs, exercised and made to purvey new vigor to the life.

From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Calhoun, Lucia Gilbert