nonpurposive

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonpurposive
Adjective
  • Yang also produced some unintentional comedy due to his total lack of familiarity with the defensive-three-seconds rule.
    John Hollinger, New York Times, 23 July 2025
  • Test strips are used to prevent unintentional consumption of fentanyl in drugs like cocaine, heroin and marijuana, which are sometimes laced with synthetic opioids.
    Bayliss Wagner, Austin American Statesman, 23 July 2025
Adjective
  • This behaviour can also be triggered by a random and undefined phrase or prompt.
    Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • Keppler notes that the 10-year time frame isn’t random.
    Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 15 July 2025
Adjective
  • Economists and trade researchers say the haphazard nature of the trade war is compounding the longer-term pressure on US manufacturing.
    Matt Egan, CNN Money, 11 July 2025
  • Marketers are widely acknowledged to be among those greatly affected by AI, which has made many of us race blindly into haphazard adoption.
    Andrea Fryrear, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
Adjective
  • How Students Are Gaming The System Students have become inadvertent experts at understanding how language shapes AI responses.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 19 July 2025
  • The homeowners, meanwhile, are locked in a separate case with Ocean over what Peck said was an inadvertent naming error in filing the 2017 assignment of rights.
    Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2025
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“Nonpurposive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonpurposive. Accessed 31 Jul. 2025.

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