How to Use on purpose in a Sentence
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Because the third space is back, and it is being rebuilt on purpose.
—Olivia Shalhoup, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
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Belief is not the residue of winning; it is built, on purpose, long before kick-off.
—André Martin, Fortune, 16 July 2026
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Someone said the sentence no one wanted to say, and the cut was made on purpose, while there was still room to shape it.
—Mohamed Al Hashemi, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
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Each one can be made on purpose instead, and each decides where your strongest engineers end up.
—Dimitar Dimitrov, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
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Unlike her husband, Barroso is far from a household name—and that’s very much on purpose.
—Emma Banks, InStyle, 17 July 2026
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Officials believe the snake was someone's pet and was likely released on purpose.
—Nick Caloway, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
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The filmmaking team went internal on purpose, and built a movie about a young man nobody remembers.
—Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026
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The companies that will define the next decade are the ones that decide to do the same for the next generation, on purpose and at scale.
—Brad Strawbridge, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
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Congress made holding a stablecoin an interest-free loan to the issuer, on purpose.
—Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
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In this case, OpenAI turned those limits off on purpose to see what the model could do without them.
—Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 22 July 2026
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The rooms that work, these designers agree, are the ones where every decision is made on purpose, and confidently.
—Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 7 July 2026
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The push to make Elci choose between running or radio most assuredly is being done on purpose.
—Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2026
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In their early days at the scenic property, the duo said they would get lost in the sprawling space — both accidentally and on purpose.
—Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 10 July 2026
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Brady toyed with Gronkowski at first, hitting a Cane’s logo just above the target on purpose, and did so again with a different one.
—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 18 July 2026
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The music is low, and RooftopKC is reservation-only on purpose to keep the new spot relaxed.
—Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 6 July 2026
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The countries that win this decade in Washington will be the ones that stop waiting for accidents and start building the capacity on purpose.
—Frank Ahrens, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
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For instance, Tom Ford famously put white looks into his fall/winter shows on purpose, to prove the color wasn't seasonal.
—Pooja Mistry, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
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The Build-To-Sell Wave Proves The Point A new wave of founders is doing this on purpose.
—Terdawn Deboe, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
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Winning after the sale just means paying attention, on purpose, at the exact moments most companies drift into autopilot.
—Sariki Abungwo, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
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After years of productivity culture and pressure to squeeze more from every hour, a growing number of people are looking for permission to do less on purpose.
—Allison Palmer july 9, Miami Herald, 9 July 2026
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Some clinicians say that more young people are ending up in emergency rooms after — whether accidentally or on purpose — ingesting these drinks.
—Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 21 July 2026
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Nonprofits can tap into clear alignment on purpose and priorities to position themselves for deeper support.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
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Heirloom Bibles One of the things that truly makes my heart sink is seeing a family Bible go into the donation bin, whether by mistake or on purpose.
—Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 15 July 2026
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California branding on the diapers Baby2Baby keeps its own packaging plain on purpose.
—July 29, CBS News, 29 July 2026
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Not an architecture diagram, a one-page contract that details which components exist, which dependencies are allowed and which few types are public on purpose.
—Evan J. Schwartz, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
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Employees aren't ignoring protocol on purpose; AI tools have moved faster than most policy or cybersecurity audits can keep up with.
—Donna Dror, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
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Washington said Wednesday that the decision to not invite NIPSCO was made on purpose.
—Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2026
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That was in 2017 when Guroux Khalifah started District Biskuits as a popup, misspelled on purpose with a K because of his last name.
—Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 8 Aug. 2026
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Lucretia was obviously given her name on purpose, but to get into the obvious de Medici theme would feel over-indulgent to this writer, my Lovely Readers.
—Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
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Twenty years later, that experiment is a global brand doing hundreds of millions in revenue, and the wrapper still looks unevenly broken on purpose, a small reminder of the inequality the whole company exists to fix.
—Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
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