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on purpose

ADVERB
done of one's own free will
Synonyms
WEAK
after consideration by design calculatingly consciously deliberately designed freely in cold blood intentionally knowingly of one's own free will premeditatedly premeditatively purposefully purposely purposively voluntarily willfully with eyes wide open with full intent wittingly

Example Sentences

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“Whenever you tell an old story, you change it, sometimes on purpose and sometimes in ways you don’t exactly control,” he writes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

If you’re trying to get excited about vegetables, give yourself permission to make them delicious on purpose.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026

NBA teams are increasingly losing games on purpose to improve their draft prospects and basketball must consider every possible remedy to stamp out deliberate "tanking," the league's chief said Saturday.

From Barron's • Feb. 14, 2026

"These companies built machines designed to addict the brains of children, and they did it on purpose," Lanier said.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

Has he done this on purpose, just to spite me?

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

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