purposed

past tense of purpose

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for purposed
Verb
  • The funding was approved by Congress and intended for schools to help their students in dealing with the long-term recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
    Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The city had intended to offer the real estate for sale or lease until budgetary woes led Mayor Todd Gloria to call off the plan to secure a new City Hall.
    Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Electoral authorities reported voter participation of more than 80% and planned to release initial results within two hours.
    Regina Garcia Cano, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Musk’s company had initially planned to support its Colossus supercomputer which uses around 150 megawatts of power with 100,000 H100 GPUs, even more when upgraded to 200,000.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 13 Apr. 2025
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“Purposed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purposed. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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