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purple states

purple states is the plural of purple state.

Meaning of purple state

Noun

purple state (plural purple states)

  1. (US) A swing state.
    • “I have loved this purple state that I’ve grown up in,” said Mallerie Stromswold, a former Republican lawmaker who left the Legislature earlier this year after she clashed with party leaders over a series of proposed transgender bills and closed-door meetings, she said, devolved into yelling and...2023 April 27, Jim Robbins, Mike Baker, Jacey Fortin, quoting Mallerie Stromswold, “A Transgender Lawmaker Is Exiled as Montana G.O.P. Flexes New Power”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Questions about purple states

What is purple states the plural of?
Purple states is the plural of purple state.

Words near purple states in the dictionary

  1. purple socks
  2. purple spurge
  3. purple squirrel
  4. purple squirrels
  5. purple state
  6. purple states
  7. purple storm snail
  8. purple storm snails
  9. purple sulfur bacterium
  10. purple swamphen
  11. purple swamphens

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