as in unlimited
not limited or specialized in application or purpose
there's nothing wrong with all-purpose flour for baking bread, but flour with more gluten is better
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Recent Examples of all-purpose
The all-purpose back gains 5,586 yards and scored 45 touchdowns in his collegiate career.
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Austin Knoblauch, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
Add 2 cups of all-purpose flour first, adding about 1/2 cup at a time.
—Kayla Samoy, Chicago Tribune, 4 Dec. 2024
An all-purpose egg substitute must do all those things acceptably well, while also yielding the familiar texture and—perhaps—flavor of real eggs.
—Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
An all-purpose egg substitute must do all those things acceptably well, while also yielding the familiar texture and — perhaps — flavor of real eggs.
—Bob Holmes, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
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Austin Knoblauch, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
Add 2 cups of all-purpose flour first, adding about 1/2 cup at a time.
—Kayla Samoy, Chicago Tribune, 4 Dec. 2024
An all-purpose egg substitute must do all those things acceptably well, while also yielding the familiar texture and—perhaps—flavor of real eggs.
—Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
An all-purpose egg substitute must do all those things acceptably well, while also yielding the familiar texture and — perhaps — flavor of real eggs.
—Bob Holmes, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
See all Example Sentences for all-purpose
Recent Examples of Synonyms for all-purpose
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Includes unlimited digital access and exclusive subscriber-only content.Daniel Thorp-Lancaster, WIRED, 10 Dec. 2024
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Get unlimited digital access, along with subscriber-exclusive content, and more.Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 10 Dec. 2024
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As the season wound down, media reports had the Patriots interested in hiring Belichick as its head coach and general manager.Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 15 Dec. 2024
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The report provided a variety of statistics about the office’s investigations, how many complaints were filed and the general types of allegations.Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 15 Dec. 2024
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Energy efficiency can also be improved, while performance can also be optimized better compared to general-purpose GPUs provided by the likes of Nvidia and AMD.Trefis Team, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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Kant said, basically, that the most general-purpose LLMs essentially are hitting a wall in terms of scaling.Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2024
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“All-purpose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/all-purpose. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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