all-purpose

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I started making pancakes with thinner and thinner batter, and replaced all-purpose flour with glutinous rice flour.

From The Wall Street Journal

Each starter began with one of three substrates: all-purpose flour, bread flour or whole wheat flour.

From Science Daily

GPUs are all-purpose AI chips: They can be used both for training AI models as well as running those models for chatbots, image generation, and the like.

From Barron's

At issue was Likely’s post-reception action, and whether or not he had completed the proper sequence of steps and moves to satisfy that all-purpose bit of NFL gobbledygook:

From The Wall Street Journal

“Surreal” has become a kind of all-purpose adjective, one used to describe everything from an alien abduction to a meal at Arby’s.

From The Wall Street Journal