purging

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“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

If you have trouble closing drawers or closet doors, she wrote, it is time to start purging.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

“It was a dictatorship that worked from a perspective of building certain legitimacy, keeping the congress functioning, but of course, after purging dissent,” explains the Brazilian historian.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026

“What goes around comes around,” Kavanaugh said, noting that if Cook could be removed, future presidents of either party might feel justified in purging sitting governors.

From Barron's • Jan. 21, 2026

In the nineteenth century, the treatment of an intestinal disease focused on purging the system through vomiting and moving the bowels.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman