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NYT Connections Purple Group Hint

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Photo: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images (Getty Images)

The purple group is the hardest one, so don’t kick yourself if this visual hint does not immediately take you to the promised land.

Here’s your verbal clue: These somehow always surprise us. So do Dumpster, Band-Aid, and Thermos. You didn’t know either?

Crying uncle? We love these because we spend the rest of the day trying to come up with other ones. Like Google, Bubble Wrap, Escalator …

Today’s purple group answer is Brands That Have Become Generic Terms and its words are CHAPSTICK, JACUZZI, Q-TIP, and XEROX.

We’ll see if the Times takes it easier on us tomorrow—check back then and find out!

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