1
as in intentionally
with full awareness of what one is doing
he purposefully chose the more difficult route to the mountain summit
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2
as in hard
with great effort or determination
strode purposefully into the boss's office, determined to ask for a raise
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Hire early, hire intentionally—and train people into your culture before they’re thrown into chaos. 4.—
Aleksandr Zemel,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025 -
As civilians, intentionally targeting members of the press is a war crime.—
Ellie Cook,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Aug. 2025
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However, Nvidia’s entrenched position - bolstered by its proprietary CUDA software ecosystem - makes customer switching harder and limits AMD’s upside.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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The heart must work harder to pump the thick blood, which may increase blood pressure.—
Ayesha Gulzar,
Verywell Health,
7 Aug. 2025
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The space had been carved out deliberately where Black joy, creative experimentation, and culinary storytelling could thrive in full bloom.—
Skylar Mitchell,
Essence,
5 Aug. 2025
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That means going beyond tests for self-harm and deliberately simulating interactions involving conditions like mania, psychosis, and OCD to assess how the models respond.—
Robert Hart,
Time,
5 Aug. 2025
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If anything, human therapists, due to their human foibles, are less likely to give holistic mental health guidance due to purposely avoiding the friendship side.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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So the actor introduced some physical comedy into his performance, purposely bumping into objects.—
Tatiana Siegel,
Variety,
5 Aug. 2025
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Standing in the dock, wearing jeans and trainers, he could be seen listening intently as the case against him was set out and filling several pages of an A4 book with notes.—
Daniel Taylor,
New York Times,
13 Aug. 2025
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At the July 22 Village Board meeting, village trustees listened intently to a presentation about e-bikes, their historical use in the village, gaining popularity, at least one resident’s concerns about them and more.—
Alan Kozeluh,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Aug. 2025
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Each of those career stages was a period of personal and professional growth made possible by continuously planning for, training for and stepping up to take on new or greater scope and responsibility.—
Philip Samson,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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Though it's been continuously upgraded since it was first built in 1979, the Lindner Family Tennis Center was starting to show its age, according to Dell, and past projects on the site left it feeling disconnected and lacking a cohesive identity.—
Sydney Franklin,
The Enquirer,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Purposefully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purposefully. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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