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purposeful

[pur-puhs-fuhl] / ˈpɜr pəs fəl /


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Eligible studies involved planned, structured, repetitive, and purposeful physical activity intended to improve physical and mental health.

From Science Daily

I’m more than two years beyond my diagnosis and living a joyful, purposeful life.

From The Wall Street Journal

What comes to my mind, though, are the wide shots of Mary traveling the pedestrian path beside Lake of the Isles with long, purposeful steps, unhurried yet anything but slow.

From Salon

The interior—small, even a bit confining—is inimitably Honda: serene and understated, quietly purposeful, with tasteful applications of tech and lots of single-purpose switches, including the illuminated centrality of the S+ Shift function button.

From The Wall Street Journal

This sensation—purposeful but unbound floating—is not new.

From The Wall Street Journal