The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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He could ask Washingtonians and Puerto Ricans for forgiveness over not righting their untenable political purgatories.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2024
Like a rich novel, “About Dry Grasses” takes its time fleshing out its central players, who are each grappling with their own metaphorical purgatories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2024
Treasury officials, who are trying to brace the public for refund delays, service disruptions, interminable telephone-hold purgatories and other unpleasantries that taxpayers will face over the next few months.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2022
It was a modest success, yet Ms. Wyatt spent the next several years mired in various record-label purgatories, a moist, bright voice lost to time.
From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2011
In various parts of the world we find that children, at death, go to special limbos, purgatories, or heavens, and the folk-lore of the subject must be read at length in the mythological treatises.
From The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Alexander F. Chamberlain
