purging

Example Sentences

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In 2024, Slovakia's interior ministry decided that Babis "was unlawfully registered as an StB agent", officially purging him of the allegations.

From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026

They’re not fixing the business model, but rather purging the patients who make it look broken.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 19, 2025

She added: "Winter mortality of lambs removes inbred individuals, removes bad genes, so the flock has this purging thing the whole time which I don't think we would be able to organise."

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2025

A collective paranoia has people purging so-called A.I. tells from their prose, even if they penned it entirely with their human brains.

From Slate • Aug. 20, 2025

“Marse Tom don’t hardly get Doc West for ague. He says all the doc knows is bleeding and blistering and purging and puking and making folks sicker than they was to start.”

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler