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the real estate agent purposely withheld information that would have discouraged us from buying the property
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Other hiring employers like Snapchat’s CEO, Evan Spiegel, purposely terrifies new hires by setting them up to fail on their first day on the job.
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Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
The glasses themselves were objectively rather dull, utilitarian in design and purposely plain.
—Sam Reed, Glamour, 15 Apr. 2025
Mikolas is working on purposely missing the strike zone — specifically in 0-2 and 1-2 counts — to generate more chase.
—Katie Woo, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Cane toads were purposely introduced to Queensland in 1935 to control cane beetles that were damaging cane crops.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
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Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
The glasses themselves were objectively rather dull, utilitarian in design and purposely plain.
—Sam Reed, Glamour, 15 Apr. 2025
Mikolas is working on purposely missing the strike zone — specifically in 0-2 and 1-2 counts — to generate more chase.
—Katie Woo, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Cane toads were purposely introduced to Queensland in 1935 to control cane beetles that were damaging cane crops.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for purposely
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“Purposely.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/purposely. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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purposely
adverb
pur·pose·ly
ˈpər-pəs-lē 
: with a clear or known purpose
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