purposefully
有目的性地,有目的的,故意的,故意地
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- : in a determined or resolute way: Many runners break down in the marathon’s second half, but I stayed positive as I painfully and purposefully placed one foot in front of the other.
- : in a thoughtful and focused way, with a serious desire to accomplish something: The Family Fun Cooking Classes are designed to educate, but more importantly, to encourage adults in our community to purposefully spend time with young people.
- : with intention; deliberately; purposely: He maliciously and purposefully slammed the car door on my foot, resulting in a fracture.
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When Google said it was offering ad credits to SMBs affected by Covid-19, the company was being purposeful, yes – and at the same time, Google was protecting its base of future ad revenue.
Any impact a movie has is the result of an artist choosing to look past the end of their own nose and do something vulnerable, purposeful, and risky.
Eye rolls, strategic slumps, purposeful notetaking, and other well-worn tools of board room persuasion apparently lose their power over Zoom.
While many companies talk about culture or being a family, Mann is purposeful in creating opportunities to make the culture shine through and make you feel like family.
With two inches of additional height from the suspension, larger tires, and the wider track, the Land Cruiser looks much more purposeful.
“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 through the darkness toward the second 'copter.