objective

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What is your objective?

And what did Brother Malcolm say is our objective?  (source) Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give, 2017

The pursuit of knowledge, he maintained, was a worthy objective in its own right and needed no external validation.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

That wasn't the primary objective.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

It appeared that on the same night I had learned about one of writing's objectives, irony, I would also be introduced to one of its pitfalls: the Plot Hole.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

Ender didn't like games where the rules could be anything and the objective was known to them alone.  (source) Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, 1977

IF THESE ARE OUR OBJECTIVES—IF WE AGREE THAT THIS IS WHAT WE WANT—WHY ARE WE ESCALATING THE WAR?†  (source) John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, 1989

Then a part of me understands, even as I begin to argue against it, that my humiliation was the cause of that pleasure. It was not an accident or side effect. It was the objective.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

Our cavalry had attacked East Prussia and our aircraft were bombarding German military objectives, but meanwhile the superior military power of the enemy kept forcing the Polish army to withdraw from somewhere or other.†  (source) Wladyslaw Szpilman, The Pianist, 1998

The group's main objective was to liberate Kashmir's Muslims from Indian rule, but they had recently also become active in Afghanistan.  (source) Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala, 2013

If the evolution is a boat race, it can be broken down into even smaller objectives such as paddling.†  (source) Howard E. Wasdin & Stephen Templin, I Am a Seal Team Six Warrior, 2012

First, by beginning your breeding program with dogs you found "excellent in temperament and structure" but of unpedigreed stock, you have made attaining your objective—and I admit I don't fully understand it—immeasurably harder.  (source) David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, 2008

All around me, my teammates were racing to their objectives.†  (source) Mark Owen, No Easy Day, 2012

There were lots of rumors, but no objective evidence.

They hired an outside consultant to get an objective perspective of the problem.

Complete objectivity is hard when considering political issues.

The bank insisted upon an objective appraisal of the house before they would give a loan.

Objectively, I can see the mutts and Cato's death are as gruesome as ever, but again, I feel it happens to people I have never met.  (source) Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, 2008

He slapped her face with amazing objectivity and repeated the question.  (source) Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1953

It has been in search of the absolute that the avant-garde has arrived at "abstract" or "nonobjective" art — and poetry, too.†  (source) Clement Greenberg, Avant-garde and Kitsch, 1939

What it is is warped with memory of what it was and that with what happened there to me, the whole bundle wracked until objectiveness is nigh impossible.†  (source) John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley, 1962

"This just isn't scary" "It objectively is," she said.  (source) John Green, Turtles All the Way Down, 2017

...the man complaining about her ability, had listened to her ... under conditions of perfect objectivity, and in that unbiased moment, he had said, "That's who we want!" and sent the remaining trombonists packing.  (source) Malcolm Gladwell, Blink, 2005

The basic idea of science—that there was a new way to look at reality, that it was objective, that it did not depend on your beliefs or your nationality, that it was rational—that idea was fresh and exciting back then.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

The objectively correct course of action was something that the majority of my life had taught me was repulsive to an upstanding young man.  (source) J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy, 2016

Inquests of stunning objectivity were held and Annie learned for the first time how facts could be so subtly rearranged to render different truths.  (source) Nicholas Evans, The Horse Whisperer, 1995