objective

Example Sentences

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"Everything has to be reviewed from the ground up with one objective: zero tolerance."

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

The company conducted three late-stage trials: two with infant patients showed positive results, and a third that studied the medicine in adults and adolescents didn’t deliver a statistically significant outcome for its primary objective.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

The U.S. has denied that regime change in Iran is an objective of its operations.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

The Russians' lawyers challenge the indictment on the grounds that it lacks "concrete and objective facts".

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

The pendulum clock provided an objective measure of a subjective experience—the passage of time.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton