for illustrative purposes

collocation in English

meaningsoffor,illustrativeandpurpose

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for
preposition
uk
/fɔːr/
us
/fɔːr/
intended to be ...
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illustrative
adjective
uk
/ˈɪl.ə.strə.tɪv/
us
/ɪˈlʌs.trə.t̬ɪv/
helping to explain or ...
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purpose
noun
uk
/ˈpɜː.pəs/
us
/ˈpɝː.pəs/
why you do something or why ...
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(Definition offor,illustrativeandpurposefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffor illustrative purposes

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Scenario 2 is for illustrative purposes only and is one of the several management options that the agency could exercise.
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These data will not, therefore, be used to offer precise estimates of program effects; rather, they will be used primarily for illustrative purposes.
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The dimensionless roughness height is inflated for illustrative purposes.
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For illustrative purposes let us therefore consider a jobrelated relocation to a new city and the daunting problem of finding a family home.
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The initial yield is only chosen for illustrative purposes.
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Thus, for illustrative purposes it is assumed herein that genotype effects are fixed.
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It is added to the figure for illustrative purposes.
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A brief review of this literature is provided here for illustrative purposes.
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First, the use made of corpus material is primarily for illustrative purposes, and the main corpus used is rather small and dates from 1980.
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This example is hypothetical and for illustrative purposes only; it is not intended to express any clinical competence.
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Other times, they modify an existing theory for illustrative purposes.
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These photographs are included primarily for illustrative purposes; they are not par t of the data set that was analyzed quantitatively.
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For illustrative purposes, the effort supply curves, or labor supply curves, are assumed to be horizontal (infinitely elastic).
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The logistic is introduced for illustrative purposes, but both biological and economic reasoning require any candidate growth function to exhibit diminishing returns.
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Assume that reliable measures of anhedonia and social anxiety are obtained and that, for illustrative purposes, the groups are roughly equal in size.
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The information printed in italics is included here for illustrative purposes only, and was not included in the version presented to the child.
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For illustrative purposes, an example case with two tools and three possible fault cases will be presented.
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A single host was found containing 33 worms; data from this host are included in figures for illustrative purposes but not in the statistical analyses.
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A line is fitted through the points for illustrative purposes.
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