purging

Example Sentences

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Purging the old requests sent out an avalanche of confirmation emails regarding years-old issues.

From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2022

Purging the act of God would begin dismantling a legal system that often obstructs, rather than facilitates, climate justice.

From Slate • Jan. 2, 2019

Not really Purging it up, so much as running around going “Nyah nyah nyah!” like an unpoliced child.

From The Verge • Jul. 3, 2018

Purging retired cells from the body has been shown to undo the ravages of old age in a study that raises the prospect of new life-extending treatments .

From The Guardian • Mar. 23, 2017

Where these Cautions were neglected, the Bark generally made the Patients worse; and we were obliged to omit it, till the Violence of the Purging was over.

From An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Monro, Donald