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

The Conservative Party had "been through a volcanic period of turmoil" and "has not looked like a party of unified commitment to purposive renewable," Mr Freeman said.

From BBC

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

From Washington Post

Its founders chose, at the moment of inception, to be intellectually dishonest — which, I would further argue, is in keeping with their purposively constipated "originalist/textualist" approach.

From Salon

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

From New York Times