purposive

Example Sentences

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Young boys turn cartwheels, women in vivid head-to-toe veils walk purposively past, and donkey carts ferrying water drums trot along dusty dirt roads.

From BBC

With her caring but purposively unmoored essays, she has done just this.

From Washington Post

For them, as we saw in Chapter 9, the argument from design depended on envisaging the universe as manufactured, rather than on showing nature itself to be purposive.

From Literature

Circulating through this purposive material stockpile is the only way to experience an art built entirely on double takes.

From New York Times

“Start from there, with TV documentaries or YouTube. Then talk to them some more. The late educationalist Professor Roland Meighan called it ‘purposive conversation’.

From The Guardian