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goal

noun as in aim, purpose of an action

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Aston Villa are ninth in the Premier League going into this weekend's game against Crystal Palace, with five wins from 11 games and a zero goal difference.

From BBC

“I think he has taken a very smart approach,” former foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba told me, “by clearly setting out the goal – ‘I’m going to fix it’ – but without getting into details.”

From BBC

Washington wrote in a letter to one of his generals that the goal was "to lay waste all the settlements."

From Salon

Netanyahu “will not surrender to the pressures; he will not recoil or withdraw until all of the war’s goals — that were set at the start of the battle — are achieved,” the statement said.

From Salon

"I tried to re-frame it as like I'd had a really great year. I did the classics and I had Roubaix and Nationals and Olympics and my main goals were done," she said.

From BBC

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

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