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to good purpose



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Idioms and Phrases

To effective use, as in A donation to the homeless shelter will be put to good purpose . This idiom was first recorded in 1553. Also see to little or no purpose .
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Example Sentences

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Others are less convinced that the technology will be put to good purpose.

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Warnock’s message is far from being as threatening to the American status quo as King’s was; the very act of seeking a Senate seat is an endorsement of the idea that the system can be put to good purpose.

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“The draconian quarantines imposed by the Chinese bought us time, and have we used that time to good purpose, to prepare ourselves? And the short answer is no,” said Stephen Morrison, a senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where he directs the center’s global health work.

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She was able to take her grief and use it to good purpose.

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We have a governing system of checks and balances for many good reasons, and to good purpose.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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