purpose
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HS2's main purpose was to increase capacity on the rail network but it has suffered rising costs and delays.
From BBC • May 17, 2026
As JPMorgan puts it, it has "the dual purpose of registering the securities with the SEC and educating investors on the opportunity."
From Barron's • May 17, 2026
However, there is currently no inhibitor specifically designed for that purpose.
From Science Daily • May 15, 2026
According to Michael Patrick Cullinane in “Theodore Roosevelt and the Tennis Cabinet,” there was an additional purpose to all of Roosevelt’s tennis playing.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
There was a tiny galley kitchen for cooking, twin tanks of drinking water, and a general sense of cleanness and completeness and purpose.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Vocabulary lists containing purpose
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 2
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The Language of Standardized Tests, List 1
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PARCC: Language of the Test (Grade7)
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