purpose

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

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

I’d wager the film’s purpose is not to explain, but to appeal.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

Some things haven’t changed: Hillman College remains a place for students to find community and figure out their purpose as they face a new set of challenges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

Their results suggest that this prehistoric adhesive may have served a second, previously overlooked purpose: helping protect wounds from infection.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

It was orderly and full of purpose, much like the Swanburne Academy, if Swanburne had been a boat full of Norwegian fishermen instead of a school full of Poor Bright Females.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

One of the most promising aspects of the discovery is the ability to customize the coating for different purposes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

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

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

Artex had been open-source -- allowing programmers to download its underlying code and customise it to suit their purposes.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

He started using ChatGPT “for the purposes of applying it to natural-language problems in cybersecurity” and then “for insider threat detection.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

They might never come close, but they could approach a point where, for all intents and purposes, she knew all that she needed to know.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2023

We are living in the land of plenty, the birthplace of innovation by giant corporations providing employment purposed to improve life and make profit.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 28, 2022

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

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

He put his arms about her with a strange spasm of heart relenting, realizing for a moment the wrong he was purposing to commit.

From Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences by Daughters of the American Revolution. Nebraska

He has a line over the side, but seems to be heading out to sea, as though purposing to cross the ocean itself.

From The Red Derelict by Bertram Mitford