to good purpose
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Others are less convinced that the technology will be put to good purpose.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 10, 2021
She was able to take her grief and use it to good purpose.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2018
We have a governing system of checks and balances for many good reasons, and to good purpose.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2018
She had turned her life to good purpose there, counseled fellow female prisoners on how to care for their infants and founded a nonprofit to provide tutoring for children of female prisoners.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2013
What he’d learned in school, and from his father, and from his own investigations—he could put it all to good purpose now.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
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