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all-purpose

adjective as in all-round

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The 15 councils in the county will be replaced with either five, four or three all-purpose unitary authorities.

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Foden has been used in a more all-purpose midfield role this season.

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Later that day, I walked down Bise’s tree-lined streets until I reached a rocky shore, where locals gathered outside a tiny all-purpose grocery store.

The prognosis was less positive for senior Eli Sanders, who was third on USC’s offense in all-purpose yards when he left Saturday’s win early in the first quarter with a knee injury.

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

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