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The Lowe’s Foundation in April committed $250 million over the next 10 years to address the skilled trade workers shortage—a commitment that aligns nicely with its home improvement business purpose.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

"A lot of people tend to lose the whole purpose behind the carnival," she said.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

"We cannot accept the court's finding today that Han instructed the acts in question or was aware of and approved their unlawful purpose," it said Monday.

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

Tessera invests in companies through a special purpose vehicle then provides investors the economic exposure to that company’s valuation through the tokens.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026

“That brings us to the purpose of this tea,” the Duchess said.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

It is understood that work has also begun to create more cells in existing prisons by adapting space used for other purposes, but that is also expected to take months.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

Specialty lamps are already sold for other biological purposes, including helping people cope with disruptions to natural circadian rhythms such as jet lag.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

The original gift and “regifting” are treated as two separate transactions for tax purposes.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

Though the Americans were pretending to be “good tourists,” in the phrase favored by the Soviet authorities, their purposes were deeper and, from the Kremlin’s point of view, not good at all.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

I provided an exegesis, not as brief as it might have been, of why at the moment I found the college satisfactory for my purposes.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

The deal with Activision also means Microsoft will own its studio solely purposed for mobile games, with hopes of expanding on the successes of titles such as Candy Crush.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2023

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

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

His papers yet lay tied up in a bundle at the bottom of the chest, where he had packed them; purposing to take them with him in his elopement.

From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I’ve been purposing all along to have a Welsh rarebit and make some cloudbursts and I’m still going to do it.

From Molly Brown's College Friends by Nell Speed

Responsibly, deliberately, he selected where to stand, fully and consciously purposing that in such selection he was enlisting and employing all the voluntary powers of his life.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee