on purpose
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“Oh, my God,” Zlatan joked when he learned that he’d done it on purpose.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
You don’t warm up to Carol at the beginning, and it’s on purpose.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
"Somebody has done that. You don't type up a letter with someone's address on it, address it to the trust and send it. I feel like it was done on purpose," she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
A good plan uses that shape on purpose.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026
Etta, now pregnant, had an endless supply of things for me to fix, though sometimes I suspected she was ripping seams and popping buttons on purpose just to give my old hands something to do.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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