a higher purpose

noun

: a more meaningful reason to live, work, etc.
He was searching for a higher purpose.

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Technology needs to serve a higher purpose and the higher purpose should be what the goal of the artist is in making that album. Peter A. Berry, Billboard, 28 Oct. 2024 Popular on Variety This blurring of genres serves a higher purpose, causing the storyline itself to blur in its distinctions between fairytales, mythology and American idiom. Katarina Docalovich, Variety, 11 Aug. 2024 For example, Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS shoes, set a higher purpose of helping the needy by donating a pair of shoes for every pair sold, driving a spiritual cause for high employee engagement and extensive customer loyalty. Martin Zwilling, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024 This blurring of genres serves a higher purpose, causing the storyline itself to blur in its distinctions between fairytales, mythology and American idiom. Katarina Docalovich, Variety, 11 Aug. 2024 Director-star Justin Baldoni is hoping his new movie serves a higher purpose. Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2024 But for us, there has always been a higher purpose, if not a form of political zealotry. Matt Bai, Washington Post, 17 July 2024 Reagan’s close brush with death also led him to conclude that he had been spared by God for a higher purpose — and that was to lift the threat of nuclear annihilation. Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 14 July 2024 Russian lying, cheating, and hypocrisy thus serve a higher purpose. Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2015

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“A higher purpose.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/a%20higher%20purpose. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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