purpose

Example Sentences

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Yet, there is cross-party agreement that one area of the Home Office is more than fit for purpose: counter-terrorism.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

A cyber security expert told Forbes last year that Max is “insecure by design to serve its purpose: people surveillance.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Think of it the way you might think of eggs: not as a single category, but as a spectrum of doneness, of mood, of purpose.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

Sauer kept returning to his claim that the lone purpose of the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause was to overturn Dred Scott and grant citizenship to newly freed slaves and their children.

From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026

Additionally, colleges for Colored people instilled students with a tremendous sense of purpose: to help lift the Colored race so that we could fully participate in American society.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson