purposive

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Policy is also purposive, or intended to do something; that is, policymaking is not random.

From Textbooks • Jul. 28, 2021

And her word choice with respect to the handful of claims she did rescind was purposive: It was unfailingly the media that was to blame.

From Slate • Feb. 5, 2021

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

From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2020

If there is any hope for a better world, it lies in the daily effort to expand the circle of those we believe should be treated as full, purposive and dignified human beings.

From Washington Post • Aug. 1, 2019

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 "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton