How to Use general-purpose in a Sentence

general-purpose

adjective

• So maybe take a year off in Tahiti and then use the general-purpose model.
  — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• With a scope attached, total weight is just right for a general-purpose hunting rifle.
  — Michael Dickerson, Outdoor Life, 10 Apr. 2023
• Geordie Rose: Our approach to general-purpose humanoid robots has two main steps.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 May 2023
• Of course, these are general-purpose strategies that work for any type of material, not just textbooks.
  — Bridgid Finn, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2010
• An annual transfer from the Permanent Fund accounts for more than half of the general-purpose revenue used to pay for state services.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2023
• More general-purpose quantum computing will need to wait for higher qubit counts still.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2024
• Although this button can also be programmed to take photographs, it’s meant as a general-purpose shortcut button and by default changes the ringer settings on the phone.
  — Jon Porter, The Verge, 19 Jan. 2024
• The speed at which a general-purpose chatbot had been achieved caught everyone, including longtime AI researchers, off guard.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2023
• This general-purpose chef's knife is recommended as our top choice for most people in our chef's knife buying guide, thanks to its ability to hold an edge and its near-nonstick surface.
  — Matt Jancer, WIRED, 25 Feb. 2023
• During the other times on weekdays and during the weekend, the lane will serve as a general-purpose lane, meaning solo drivers can use it without receiving a citation.
  — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2023
• There are great general-purpose, all-around rimfire rifles, and also highly specialized ones.
  — Richard Mann, Outdoor Life, 27 Feb. 2023
• One of the provisions of the new legislation is that general-purpose AI systems will be required to show how the content used for training their models respects European copyright law.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Apr. 2024
• Games like Minesweeper or Magic: The Gathering could, in principle, be used as general-purpose computers.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
• Nvidia’s roaring sales contrasted sharply with the fortunes of some of its chip industry peers, which have been hurt by soft demand for personal computers and data center servers used for general-purpose tasks.
  — Don Clark, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
• Fourier Intelligence is one such Chinese startup hoping to start mass-producing general-purpose humanoid robots by the end of this year.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 Nov. 2023
• And for those who just want an excellent keyboard for general-purpose typing, there’s Bluetooth connectivity offering a polling rate of 125Hz wit up to three devices.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 16 July 2023
• The evolution of watchOS and the Apple Watch has been gradual; originally pitched as a sort of do-everything extension of your phone, its focus slowly shifted away from general-purpose apps to health and fitness.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 17 Apr. 2023
• Ballie is, by design, a more general-purpose assistant.
  — Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2024
• Friedman says this kind of flow produces better results and uses less computing power than simply asking a huge general-purpose LLM to tackle an entire problem.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
• Two original general-purpose versions of Gemma were first released back in February.
  — Kate Irwin, PCMAG, 10 Apr. 2024
• Feed with any balanced, general-purpose extended release fertilizer in the spring.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 14 June 2023
• But saying kids can’t buy what are essentially general-purpose computers would be quite a different matter.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2024
• The timing of interventions in novel general-purpose technologies is tricky.
  — Mauritz Kop, Fortune, 16 May 2023
• The best examples of Web3 applications moving from general-purpose to specific technologies are in the realm of tokenization.
  — François Candelon, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2024
• The universality of the general-purpose computer was both profound and powerful.
  — Cory Doctorow, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
• The first program to run on the world’s first general-purpose electronic computer used randomness to simulate nuclear processes.
  — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
• That would cost $2.6 billion in state general-purpose revenue, generating an extra $4 billion of Medicaid matching funds.
  — Dallas News, 18 Apr. 2023
• In the budget meeting last week, Carvalho committed to additional general-purpose funding to schools and also, separately, to school arts programs that faced cutbacks.
  — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
• This video explains the process and benefits of teleoperation mode when Sanctuary AI general-purpose robots are piloted by people.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2023
• Commerce is considering a new blockade on a broad category of general-purpose AI programs, not just physical parts, according to people familiar with the matter.
  — Karen Hao, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024