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all-purpose

adjective as in all-round

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It calls for rooting out “waste, fraud, and abuse,” that all-purpose chimera evoked by budget-cutters as a painless way of reducing costs, but which no one ever seems to accomplish.

The person setting all this in motion is a Harkonnen, a name associated in the movie “Dune”-iverse with violent strongman rulership and all-purpose villainy.

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Podcasters validate their fears and doubts, cite fallacious research, or more speciously, quote the all-purpose source of “some” or “they” without evidence.

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Tonga finished with 160 rushing yards and 88 receiving yards, leading the Olympians in all-purpose yardage.

Banning, which won its 13th City Section football title last year, ended the night with 364 all-purpose yards as Dorsey coach Stafon Johnson and the Dons never found the solution to stop the Pilots’ offense.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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