devote to
phrasal verb
devoted to; devoting to; devotes to
: to decide that (something) will be used for (a special purpose) : to use (time, money, energy, attention, etc.) for (something)
They devote an hour every day to worship.
Some of the money they raise will be devoted to repairing the church's roof.
The magazine will devote an entire issue to this year's winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Unlike Save Europe, which has hundreds of TikTok edits and YouTube mixes devoted to purifying countries and turning them into ethnostates, the Agartha-Vril zone has no coherent idea or apparatus of attack yet.
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Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 30 Apr. 2025
Reddit threads and Discord channels once devoted to parsing episodes now read more like group therapy for disillusioned fans.
—Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025
That brought military spending to 1.4% of gross domestic product, the biggest chunk of Japan’s economy devoted to the military since 1958.
—Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 30 Apr. 2025
All of them were successful, and all were devoted to building out LEO broadband constellations, one of which is already established and operational (Starlink) and two of which are just getting off the ground (Guowang and Project Kuiper).
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 29 Apr. 2025
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Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 30 Apr. 2025
Reddit threads and Discord channels once devoted to parsing episodes now read more like group therapy for disillusioned fans.
—Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025
That brought military spending to 1.4% of gross domestic product, the biggest chunk of Japan’s economy devoted to the military since 1958.
—Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 30 Apr. 2025
All of them were successful, and all were devoted to building out LEO broadband constellations, one of which is already established and operational (Starlink) and two of which are just getting off the ground (Guowang and Project Kuiper).
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 29 Apr. 2025
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“Devote to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/devote%20to. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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