purpose

A good plan uses that shape on purpose.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026

But history is being deployed for the present day purpose of alliance-building and democratic renewal in a politically challenging time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

He added that "given the paucity of evidence and the passage of time, it is unlikely that further meaningful investigation is possible, or that further investigation would serve a practical purpose".

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

Even if the characters do not really interact, there is a notable sense of common feeling and purpose transmitted in moments of casual rapport between the actors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

In a $600 million fund that was meant to be picking stocks, his bet was already gargantuan; but if he could raise the money explicitly for this new purpose, he could do many billions more.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Both premieres were reminders that the sound system will have many purposes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026

A signing bonus, for instance, can be paid the first year but treated as if it’s paid over as many as five years for cap-accounting purposes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

By Sony’s gauge, the game disc, for all intents and purposes, has been dead with audiences for a while.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

It would also make it an offence to remove a person from Northern Ireland for the purposes of subjecting them to conversion practices.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

One of the primary purposes of the first clocks was to model the movement of the heavens, not just to tell the time.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

QCi said Monday that the foundry, “currently purposed for research and development and prototyping,” had begun to generate early revenue, though contributions weren’t broken out in the report.

From Barron's ● May 11, 2026

The deal with Activision also means Microsoft will own its studio solely purposed for mobile games, with hopes of expanding on the successes of titles such as Candy Crush.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2023

If the purposed minimum pay rate does go through, it'll be the first of its kind nationwide.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2023

“I stood next to the job for four years. I purposed to be ready every day for four years,” Pence said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

I do not know how, purposed with so high & noble Aims, we end thus in Ruin.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

As ProPublica detailed in 2016, several state court systems have adopted a proprietary software that purports to put a probability on recidivism for sentencing purposing.

From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2021

I read with my watch upon the table, purposing to close my book at eleven o’clock.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

Still he would not absolutely recede from his engagements; but purposing to gain time, he demanded of Manfred if it was true in fact that Hippolita consented to the divorce.

From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William

His papers yet lay tied up in a bundle at the bottom of the chest, where he had packed them; purposing to take them with him in his elopement.

From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

She set out to keep her appointment with an hour to spare, purposing to employ the interval by running, at leisure, the gauntlet of masculine admiration on Broadway as far south as Thirty-eighth Street.

From Joan Thursday by Vance, Louis Joseph