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• The main challenge was that this was to be a TV show with many theme songs — which would seem to defeat the purpose of having a theme song.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2021
• Jaxson Ryker and Elias served solely to defeat the purpose of this Steel Cage match.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 11 Apr. 2021
• And does using a nonprescription, over-the-counter retinoid defeat the purpose of using one at all?
  — Chloe Malle, Vogue, 23 Mar. 2023
• Be sure to control the situation such that the dog cannot catch and eat the bird, which will defeat the purpose of building basic hunting skills.
  — Jennifer Wapenski, Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2021
• And those available tests would need to produce results that day, or the lag time for learning an athlete was positive would defeat the purpose of the test.
  — oregonlive, 4 June 2020
• Returning oversight of trust lands to DNR would defeat the purpose of those reforms, which have paid huge dividends to Utah’s school trust fund, which now exceeds $2 billion.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Jan. 2021
• Yet this tends to defeat the purpose of index investing by returning to active stock-picking.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2021
• Many, many children -- especially as stay-at-home order are lifted -- are going to congregate outside of schools and kind of defeat the purpose of it.
  — Fox News, 24 June 2020
• Aerobic Efforts run too hard defeat the purpose of the whole plan and undermine your season come October and November.
  — Andrew Simmons, Outside Online, 11 May 2021
• Those three things essentially defeat the purpose of building a beefy desktop gaming PC or workstation.
  — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 24 Feb. 2022
• Also, any available forwards or centers who might have provided the same type of upgrade Powell does at guard, weren’t within the team’s reach without overspending, which would defeat the purpose of making a deal.
  — oregonlive, 26 Mar. 2021
• Also, going without him would defeat the purpose of a family vacation.
  — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2022
• But reducing the scope of the climate provisions would defeat the purpose of dramatically reducing the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions.
  — Jennifer Haberkorn, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2021
• An option is combining several teams in one bubble, but that could defeat the purpose of grouping athletes who are practicing and competing together against the same opponents.
  — Buddy Collings, orlandosentinel.com, 12 Oct. 2020
• Some pointed out that allowing all-day services inside synagogues on Yom Kippur will defeat the purpose of the tight lockdown, because evidence suggests that the virus spreads much more easily indoors than outdoors.
  — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2020
• Twitter users complained that paying for verification would defeat the purpose of differentiating high-profile users from any imposters.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024