purvey
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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
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
But the question is in the execution of these new plots, and specifically how ardently this spinoff will purvey a skewed image of justice’s inner workings, as is the tendency of Wolf’s other work.
From Salon • Sep. 5, 2018
The former are treated very well, because they purvey the ideas and analysis that fuel the think tank’s operations.
From Slate • Mar. 7, 2012
He will purvey me to a page’s place in some noble household, and get thee a clerk’s or scholar’s place in my Lord of York’s house.
From The Armourer's Prentices by Hennessy, W.J.
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