purpose

Many retirees struggle to find purpose or structure once they’re done with the routine of a traditional job, which can lead to loneliness and isolation.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

Does this fund serve an investment purpose, or is it a gamble?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Is it aliens we are seeking, “The Pineapple” begins to ask, or simply perhaps purpose?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

The very purpose of a surrogacy agreement is for a surrogate to carry a child for the intended parents.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

I mean, I’m mad, but I know he didn’t do it on purpose.

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell

Varun Shetty, OpenAI’s vice president of media partnerships, testified in the lawsuit that he wasn’t aware of OpenAI’s purchasing books at scale and scanning them for training purposes, according to the filing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

The criteria includes someone being declared resident for tax purposes if they have lived in the UK for at least 183 days in the tax year.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

Later analysis showed that Old Ancestors had intentionally placed the stone inside the cave for ritual purposes around 2,000 years ago.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

"These capabilities can be employed for offensive and defensive purposes," it added.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

We would single out someone, or a couple, or sometimes a whole family—although for the purposes of the game, it was always better to single out a person shopping alone.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

QCi said Monday that the foundry, “currently purposed for research and development and prototyping,” had begun to generate early revenue, though contributions weren’t broken out in the report.

From Barron's ● May 11, 2026

The deal with Activision also means Microsoft will own its studio solely purposed for mobile games, with hopes of expanding on the successes of titles such as Candy Crush.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2023

If the purposed minimum pay rate does go through, it'll be the first of its kind nationwide.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2023

“There are no awards. There are no winners or losers tonight. It’s just our passion that makes our heart beat faster. It makes our life so much more greatly purposed with joy and fulfillment.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2023

I do not know how, purposed with so high & noble Aims, we end thus in Ruin.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

As ProPublica detailed in 2016, several state court systems have adopted a proprietary software that purports to put a probability on recidivism for sentencing purposing.

From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2021

I read with my watch upon the table, purposing to close my book at eleven o’clock.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

Not, indeed, in the professed spirit of the martyr, not purposing the sacrifice, but for that very reason making it the more significant.

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various

Six weeks after, Governor Gore was on his way to England, not recalled, as it would seem, but purposing to give an account of himself in his own person.

From Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding

Mr. ah—Brockway; I understand that you are purposing to take the party to ah—Feather Plume or ah—Silver Feather, or some such place to-day, and I ah—protest!

From A Romance in Transit by Francis Lynde