purpose

Then Cliffe would stand near campus landmarks—the sundial at Columbia University, or the Pit at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill—and students would bombard him with questions: What is the purpose of life?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

“There are so many kids who are for the first time in their lives thinking, ‘What is my purpose here?’”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

While many prostheses are designed to restore appearance, some also serve a practical purpose.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Two of those trips have a documented business purpose.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

Generating electricity is the whole purpose of the reactor, but cooling it is equally important.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

China has previously supplied Iran with drones as well as equipment that can be used for both civilian and military purposes.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Drugs for lethal injections are also hard to obtain because many pharmaceutical companies do not want to sell the medications to prisons for that use, since they were developed for life-saving purposes.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

"However, new studies suggest that birch tar may also have been used for other purposes," says Tjaark Siemssen of the University of Cologne and Oxford University, who is leading the current study.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

Paxton has also gone to the Salt Lake City area 19 times, twice for listed business purposes.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

“Like my parents do. Because fairies don’t exist. And neither does Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, or, most importantly for our current purposes, the Spirit of the Sea.”

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

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

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 heartbeat faster. It makes our life so much more greatly purposed with joy and fulfillment.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 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

Stark sailed in the Adventuress before sundown of the same day, purposing to fetch a surgeon from Port Moresby.

From The Destroying Angel by Louis Joseph Vance

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

Responsibly, deliberately, he selected where to stand, fully and consciously purposing that in such selection he was enlisting and employing all the voluntary powers of his life.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee