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purge

[purj] / pɜrdʒ /




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At Uber and elsewhere, managers with small teams are vulnerable in the push to purge management ranks, my colleague Chip Cutter reports.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

At Uber and elsewhere, managers with small fiefdoms have become an especially vulnerable target in the push to purge management ranks.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

"Could it work a week after infection? Two weeks? How far can you go after infection, and still purge the virus?"

From Science Daily Aug. 13, 2026

They have been dreaming of a revolution which will remake Myanmar as a more democratic and inclusive country, and purge the armed forces from politics.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

“It’s important that you get up and purge yourself from this sweet emptiness.”

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

In the past, those purges usually led to another cycle of manager hiring and promotions.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

Similarly, the Independent has the headline: "Burnham vows to be 'circuit-breaker' PM as he purges cabinet".

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

But this is not the full story of the purges, which have been driven by a leader exerting ever more control over the party and the country.

From BBC Mar. 13, 2026

Xi’s recent purges of senior Chinese military officials could also be influencing air force activity, the official suggested.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 12, 2026

At the beginning of the epidemic, Rush used mild purges and moderate bleedings and urged patients to sit in cool air, take cold baths, and eat light meals.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

Maybe you could call it a tea party wokeness, purged of pedants and scolds.

From Slate Aug. 17, 2026

An economic planner and later an engineer at the State Planning Commission, Zhu was purged twice during the tumultuous early decades of the People's Republic.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

“One Night Only” feels purged of a brain.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

Take this spring’s Michael Jackson biopic, a film that purged Jackson of all of his eccentricities in an attempt to downplay the allegations that clouded his late career.

From Salon Jul. 8, 2026

When the eldest son was gone Wang Lung felt the house was purged of some surcharge of unrest and it was a relief to him.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

By Friday afternoon, firefighters had cooled the tank enough that a valve on top of the tank was no longer purging any kind of chemical.

From Los Angeles Times May 23, 2026

“Is he purging not just perfectly competent people, but highly competent people, the people you would want in your foxhole?” he asks.

From Salon May 1, 2026

But I do think this particular controversy has tapped into something deeper, purging a spiritual angst that has long surrounded liberal culture.

From Slate Apr. 13, 2026

Meta is currently purging the ads on its platforms and plans to ban future ads that promote the litigation.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 9, 2026

His words of purging our souls of anger and hatred were so taken to heart by some that they rose out of their seats, just itching to praise the Lord.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool




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