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“I want to try to live my own values as consciously and purposefully as I can,” Booker told me in a phone interview.

The device itself and connecting app was purposefully designed to be simple.

She details the time Biggs purposefully hit on her friend, Simone, to determine her loyalty in “Chicks Before Dicks.”

And then there is the slaughtering of sheep, some killed purposefully and others at the hand of an unknown “beast.”

There is one additional step of not doing something purposefully gratuitous, you know, really thinking, “Did we earn this moment?”

David Houston walked purposefully along the pavement, his hand jammed deep in his overcoat pockets.

He felt Janice turn and run purposefully through the darkness toward the second 'copter.

He came quickly and purposefully, and he was Mr. Schultz—none other.

It is well to sleep intelligently, purposefully, knowing what you do it for.

Drawing long, slow breaths, she seemed purposefully to be gaining strength to speak.

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On this page you'll find 151 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to purposefully, such as: ardently, assiduously, carefully, diligently, eagerly, and earnestly.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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