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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

Even the absurdist purgatories and in-between spaces of Beckett, whose language has the same kind of circuitousness, take us someplace, even if we ultimately end up back where we started.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2023

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

These lakes served more efficiently as "purgatories," than the artificial basin of Caligula, nine miles below.

From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One) by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)