purposeful
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“And we found it so meaningful and purposeful to be sure that there is a place to talk about it, to create with it.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026
A small share of companies offer a sabbatical — a long, purposeful break from work that generally lasts between six weeks and a year.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 4, 2026
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 • Jan. 31, 2026
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 • Jan. 28, 2026
I pull on my powder-blue sweatsuit, my disguise as a non-artist, and go down the four flights of stairs, trying to look brisk and purposeful.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Vocabulary lists containing purposeful
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"A Village After Dark" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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