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
What Are the Different Types of Juicers? Most all-purpose juicers fall into one of two types.
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Matthew Korfhage, WIRED, 29 Jan. 2025
Penn, who served as a team captain for Carroll as a junior, has tallied 2,740 all-purpose yards and 50 touchdowns in his high school career.
—Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Jan. 2025
Running back Jamaal Charles scored five touchdowns and generated 215 all-purpose yards.
—Nate Taylor, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
This vanilla wafer cake uses crushed up vanilla wafers instead of all-purpose flour to build the base of the cake.
—Tricia Manzanero Stuedeman, Southern Living, 23 Jan. 2025
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Matthew Korfhage, WIRED, 29 Jan. 2025
Penn, who served as a team captain for Carroll as a junior, has tallied 2,740 all-purpose yards and 50 touchdowns in his high school career.
—Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Jan. 2025
Running back Jamaal Charles scored five touchdowns and generated 215 all-purpose yards.
—Nate Taylor, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
This vanilla wafer cake uses crushed up vanilla wafers instead of all-purpose flour to build the base of the cake.
—Tricia Manzanero Stuedeman, Southern Living, 23 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for all-purpose
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Includes unlimited digital access and exclusive subscriber-only content.—
Louryn Strampe,
WIRED,
14 Feb. 2025
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Plus earn unlimited 1% cash back on all other purchases.—
Ryley Amond,
CNBC,
12 Feb. 2025
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The rule requires teams to include two minority candidate during the interview process for head coaching jobs and was later applied to general managers, senior executives and assistant coaches.—
Joseph N. Cooper,
The Conversation,
7 Feb. 2025
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The specifics of forecast models this far out in time can change dramatically, so this is just a general idea of how storms could behave and not a high-confidence, detailed forecast.—
Mary Gilbert,
CNN,
7 Feb. 2025
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But even as late as the opening phases of the Iraq war in 2003, roughly a third of munitions dropped by the United States and its coalition partners were still unguided, general-purpose bombs.—
Raphael S. Cohen,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Feb. 2025
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By 2027, the center aims to train 1,000 general-purpose robots simultaneously, with plans to collect 10 million high-quality physical data entries through collaborations with local robot manufacturers.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
Fox News,
14 Feb. 2025
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“All-purpose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/all-purpose. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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