as in intentionally
with full awareness of what one is doing
the real estate agent purposely withheld information that would have discouraged us from buying the property
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Wright University said the Wright Brothers kept The Evening Item purposely short and ran it from April 1890 to July 1890.
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Krystal Nurse, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2024
But researchers know of multiple circular monuments in northeastern Scotland that were purposely laid flat.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
The component undertakes its internal mathematical and computational effort and then goes out of its way to purposely produce tokens so that the rest of the assembly line functions based on language.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
One of his clients, a senior executive, was flying from Washington, D.C., to Seoul to close a business deal, and the South Koreans seemed to have purposely scheduled meetings for a day and time when the executive would be struggling with jet lag.
—Tim Neville, Outside Online, 5 Dec. 2024
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Krystal Nurse, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2024
But researchers know of multiple circular monuments in northeastern Scotland that were purposely laid flat.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
The component undertakes its internal mathematical and computational effort and then goes out of its way to purposely produce tokens so that the rest of the assembly line functions based on language.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
One of his clients, a senior executive, was flying from Washington, D.C., to Seoul to close a business deal, and the South Koreans seemed to have purposely scheduled meetings for a day and time when the executive would be struggling with jet lag.
—Tim Neville, Outside Online, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Purposely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purposely. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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