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purposefully

adverb

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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Recent Examples of purposefully That reciprocal impact, according to Canadian officials, will purposefully target key sectors and states — like Michigan — with particular economic and political importance in the United States. — Grant Schwab, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026 Apple, like most services, layers its shows purposefully so one ends and another begins, or has already just begun. — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026 The league would do right to purposefully promote Wilson, who has won three WNBA titles, four league MVPs and two Olympic gold medals, as much as featuring Clark as the face of the league. — Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026 As progress at the artillery plant continued to stall, paranoia grew and rumors swirled among the American workers that the Turkish employees from Repkon might be purposefully sabotaging the machinery. — ProPublica, 26 Aug. 2026 Why are Black and brown institutions—like HBCUS or universities in Africa or Mexico—purposefully under resourced? — Literary Hub, 24 Aug. 2026 That is inaccurate, not what the investigation covers, and viral posts on X are misleading people either through incompetence or purposefully misleading information. — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 21 Aug. 2026 Although the bars are not related, all three arrived on the scene under purposefully mysterious circumstances. — Henri Hollis, AJC.com, 20 Aug. 2026 But critics argue that many of these ads are purposefully created to be deceptive — especially deepfakes that seek to use someone else’s likeness and put words in their mouth. — Grace Hase, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for purposefully
  1. intentionally
  2. hard
  3. deliberately
  4. intensively
  5. purposely
  6. diligently
  7. intensely
  8. intently
Adverb
  • Additional autonomous cyberattacks were disclosed by Anthropic and Meta in recent months, though in those cases the models had been granted internet access either intentionally or inadvertently.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026
  • For families who use it intentionally, the business doesn’t just survive the transition.
    — Joy Nissen, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of intentionally
Adverb
  • Vucic has pushed hard against the protesters, sparking international concern over police violence and arbitrary detentions.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2026
  • From a security standpoint, verifying political senders can help make impersonation harder.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of hard
Adverb
  • The constant contrast between pristine nature and industrial machinery is accompanied by a discordant synth-heavy score by composer Robert Nacken, that, at times, pushes the film along and, at others, deliberately drags against it.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Someone has to decide to deliberately create and nurture the relationships in a new market.
    — Wayne Elsey, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of deliberately
Adverb
  • The pork producers group has also intensively lobbied for legislation called the Save Our Bacon Act, which would overturn the state laws.
    — Kenny Torrella, Vox, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Whalers hunted bowheads intensively in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, pushing them towards extinction.
    — Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of intensively
Adverb
  • According to Ukrzaliznytsia, a diplomatic train carrying Boris Johnson, Carl Bildt and security advisers from several European Union states had purposely left the station at Yahodyn ahead of schedule.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2026
  • These fish can’t really be classified as invasive, however, because the state purposely stocked the South American imports in the early 1980s for two reasons.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of purposely
Adverb
  • Just be sure to diligently shop around before making a final decision and don't forget to explore your online CD account options as online banks often offer more competitive rates and terms than banks with in-person branch locations do.
    — Matt Richardson, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The bad news for Democrats is that Republicans will spend the next two months working diligently to change that.
    — Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of diligently
Adverb
  • Each review sucks rhythm and emotion out of an intensely rhythmic and emotional sport.
    — Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Our show launched in early 2021, when the pandemic was going pretty intensely.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of intensely
Adverb
  • That won her support from journalists at NBC News, but not necessarily the corporation, which, like many other media conglomerates is focused more intently on squeezing whatever revenue is to be gleaned from broadcast operations.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Geese’s lead singer, Cameron Winter, is stretched out at full length on a comfortable chair in another corner of the room, gazing intently at a phone with a single large crack marring its screen.
    — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of intently

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“Purposefully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purposefully. Accessed 17 Sep. 2026.

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