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[per-vay] / 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

A generation earlier, they were “the first to popularly purvey African-American spirituals in concert,” making a great impact in an 1872 American tour and a widely celebrated European tour in 1873.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2021

Carol ends up at a ramshackle New Mexican community of fellow-sufferers, who purvey the mantra of self-love.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 4, 2019

From Rousseau’s “Confessions,” we have not room to purvey further.

From French Classics by William Cleaver Wilkinson

There’s Remnant Brewing, a taproom by night and coffeehouse by day, a vegetarian takeout eatery called Saus, and Hot Box, which purveys North Shore roast beef sandwiches, a regional specialty.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022

It gave rise to what I call “sorta know” journalism – that is, journalism which purveys rumor and gossip because you “sorta know” it’s true, even if the reporter hasn’t adequately sourced it.

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2016

More damningly, his column purveys the prejudices of the people who bankroll Broadway shows.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2015

Dropping a story that purveys largely true information is indeed something that needs explaining after all.

From Forbes ● Jun. 30, 2013

Thus is it that a parent's care purveys His bounty, and, exacting rigorously The price in tears, each boon's full cost defrays?

From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by William Thomas Thornton

Recognizability was never an issue for a clutch of business leaders who died this year, at least in terms of the products they purveyed.

From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2022

That’s because unalloyed optimism, which is what’s generally purveyed by corporate executives, is unhealthy for capitalism, just as living on a diet exclusively of Twinkies would be for you or me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2022

“It should not be construed as an endorsement of the ideas or narrative purveyed, nor of the personal conduct of the author.”

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2021

It’s a fallacy to think that classical music can only be purveyed in the way it’s most familiar: the established concert-hall format.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2018

I am like a certain philanthropist of whom I have heard who purveyed sherbet to the rival camps of the Sultan of Morocco and the Pretender.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 24, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman

He’s always taken an opposing approach from Maron, purveying raunch instead of raw honesty, channeling swagger, shock and dismissiveness as opposed to connection and intimacy.

From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2025

We’ve been pointing the finger at Mercola since as long ago as 2012; he’s been repeatedly cited by the Food and Drug Administration for purveying unsupported medical treatments to his followers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2021

Researchers find it difficult to track how many men have donated semen, how many children have resulted from each individual’s donation, and how much money is spent on procuring and purveying sperm.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 12, 2019

Pointing to slides that displayed YouTube videos purveying conspiracies about the moon landing and chemtrails, Wojcicki said the company will begin displaying “information cues” drawn from Wikipedia alongside such clips.

From Slate ● Mar. 14, 2018

Most of the musical purveying done in the country.

From The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem by Henry Ford




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