purgatory

While this purgatory may not rattle the market like last year’s tariff battles, it will be an irritant for sectors reliant on the relationship such as autos, metals and agriculture.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

They feel like suburban purgatory, liminal implying a state in between reality and dream.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

You can even rescue other canned beans from pantry purgatory: kidney, white, garbanzo, whatever you have on hand.

From Salon ● May 5, 2026

“I happen to have a bit of experience ... in my own rebuilding purgatory in the Palisades,” Pratt said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

The wind screamed like a Super Bowl crowd or a hundred thousand souls let loose from purgatory.

From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin

He could ask Washingtonians and Puerto Ricans for forgiveness over not righting their untenable political purgatories.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2024

Like a rich novel, “About Dry Grasses” takes its time fleshing out its central players, who are each grappling with their own metaphorical purgatories.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2024

Even the absurdist purgatories and in-between spaces of Beckett, whose language has the same kind of circuitousness, take us someplace, even if we ultimately end up back where we started.

From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2023

Treasury officials, who are trying to brace the public for refund delays, service disruptions, interminable telephone-hold purgatories and other unpleasantries that taxpayers will face over the next few months.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2022

Such wells or "purgatories," as they are called, are common enough in the old-fashioned kitchens of certain English districts.

From Elster's Folly by Mrs. Henry Wood