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all-purpose

adjective as in all-round

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All of which would eventually be subsumed in the all-purpose label “woke” — well, except for “cultural Marxism,” which basically just means Jewish.

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The all-purpose adage offering optimism — and sometimes pessimism — to those confronting a crisis head-on is: “This too shall pass.”

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The streusel — made from a flour mixture of oats, all-purpose flour, whole-wheat flour, brown sugar, baking powder, cinnamon and sea salt — is sprinkled on top before baking.

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Instead, the term “efficiency” is an all-purpose explanation for eliminating any program with no direct value to an imposed ideological agenda.

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Morgan was impatient with acquaintances who wished to compress all these considerations into a single all-purpose maxim.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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