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purvey

[per-vey] / pərˈveɪ /


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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

Only the aptly gaudy costumes by Susan Hilferty suggest the Ziegfeldian overabundance that shows like “Funny Girl” were designed to purvey.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2022

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

Rather, I think that the very notion of the children’s movie is, too often, a coup of marketing that comes disguised in the very virtues that the movies purvey.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 6, 2017

The cellaress had to purvey 22 “gud oxen” by the year for the convent.

From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen




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