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Recent Examples of all-purpose If booking fabulous vacations is important to you, getting an all-purpose travel card will give you more bang for your buck on flights and hotel stays than a straightforward cash-back card. Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 11 Feb. 2025 Fertilize once a month with an all-purpose houseplant fertilizer to keep the foliage lush and green for maximum food production. Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 8 Feb. 2025 Ard totaled 2,028 all-purpose yards in his senior season at McKinney North High School, including 1,747 yards on the ground. Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 7 Feb. 2025 This is an all-purpose unit with a wide horizontal profile designed to be mounted on top of your TV screen. K. Thor Jensen, PCMAG, 6 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for all-purpose
Recent Examples of Synonyms for all-purpose
Adjective
  • Get unlimited digital access to Vogue, including the March issue featuring Sabrina Carpenter for $3 $1.25/month for one year.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Get one year of unlimited digital access for only $3.33 $1.50 per month.
    Amelia Mularz, Architectural Digest, 10 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The Mavericks have endured a number of injuries to their roster, and the loss of Dončić is something no one saw coming due to the ownership and general manager Nico Harrison.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
  • These three new books explore such decelerations, and seek to move from urbanism toward a more general political philosophy.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Large general-purpose models consume extreme energy amounts: the World Economic Forum highlights that generative AI systems might use around 33 times more energy to complete a task than a small language model or task-specific software would.
    Julius Černiauskas, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Off in its own corner is a company called D-Wave, which makes hardware that relies on quantum effects to perform calculations, but isn't a general-purpose quantum computer.
    Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 12 Mar. 2025

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“All-purpose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/all-purpose. Accessed 17 Mar. 2025.

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