as in unlimited
not limited or specialized in application or purpose
there's nothing wrong with all-purpose flour for baking bread, but flour with more gluten is better
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Recent Examples of all-purpose
But the ringer is Michael Cera, as Norwegian tutor Bjørn Lund, employed as an all-purpose factotum by the shady, swaggering, death-defying entrepreneur played by Del Toro.
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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025
Ingredients Crust: 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 tsp.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 3 June 2025
Choose an all-purpose lawn fertilizer and apply it according to label directions.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 June 2025
Cook’s notes: To prepare pie crust, place 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour, a pinch of salt and a pinch of sugar in a food processor fitted with the metal blade.
—Cathy Thomas, Oc Register, 28 May 2025
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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025
Ingredients Crust: 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 tsp.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 3 June 2025
Choose an all-purpose lawn fertilizer and apply it according to label directions.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 June 2025
Cook’s notes: To prepare pie crust, place 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour, a pinch of salt and a pinch of sugar in a food processor fitted with the metal blade.
—Cathy Thomas, Oc Register, 28 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for all-purpose
Adjective
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Those who subscribe will get unlimited access to the BBC’s news articles, feature stories and the 24/7 livestream of the BBC News channel.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
26 June 2025
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Includes unlimited digital access and exclusive subscriber-only content.—
Louryn Strampe,
Wired News,
26 June 2025
Adjective
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Team president of basketball operations and general manager Rob Pelinka had previously said James will be keeping an eye on how the roster improves in the offseason.—
Jacob Lev,
CNN Money,
19 June 2025
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The President then turned to the club’s general manager Damien Comolli, asking the same question.—
Callum Sutherland,
Time,
19 June 2025
Adjective
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Brown said the broader language in the bill that’s perturbing foreign investors is likely intended to be a safeguard against semantic workarounds for instituting digital service taxes and subsidiary top-up taxes — not to be a general-purpose punitive tool in an escalating trade war.—
Tobias Burns,
The Hill,
11 June 2025
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While simulated reasoning models like o3-pro often show measurable improvements over general-purpose models on analytical tasks, research suggests these gains come from allocating more computational resources to traverse their neural networks in smaller, more directed steps.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
11 June 2025
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“All-purpose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/all-purpose. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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