purposively
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 • Dec. 2, 2024
With her caring but purposively unmoored essays, she has done just this.
From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2022
In that last sentence, Barrett and other textualists might note that I purposively use the subjunctive.
From Salon • Oct. 25, 2020
Grant evolved into the first purposively Christian pop star, as well as a stylish, subtle singer-songwriter.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 17, 2018
A volitionally, purposively active being is always a seeker as well as a doer.
From The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker by Lloyd, Alfred H.
