goals

noun

plural of goal
as in objectives
something that one hopes or intends to accomplish leaving the world a better place than I found it is one of my main goals

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Recent Examples of goals Boise’s City Council on Tuesday denied an appeal from the Cathedral of the Rockies seeking to pave a parking area adjacent to its North End church, dealing a blow to an application that pit arguments of religious freedom against municipal goals. — Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 3 Sep. 2026 One of the goals behind the Lele pop-up for Uditi, who grew up in Caserta, outside of Naples, was to highlight the cuisine of his native Campania. — Margy Rochlin, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026 Licata has held several strategic action sessions in the district in conjunction with the Board of Manager’s listening sessions to get feedback about district goals. — Maven Navarro, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Sep. 2026 Before that happens, Manning and Texas are tasked with living up to high expectations after falling short of their lofty goals last year. — Antonio Morales, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026 Does the show affect your goals for the Paranormal Activity brand moving forward? — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026 Years later, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) recommended that TSA collect more data and create baseline goals to track its performance. — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026 The Sun conjoins Mercury in Virgo and your 10th House of Career, Reputation, Authority, and Public Life, helping your goals become easier to explain. — Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2026 The agreement also includes specific goals around false positive rates — that is, minors who are identified as over 18. — Barbara Ortutay, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for goals
  1. objectives
  2. purposes
  3. plans
  4. aims
  5. intentions
  6. ambitions
  7. ideas
  8. intents
Noun
  • Russian forces have long targeted the strategic cities of Kostyantynivka, Kramatorsk and Sloviansk as part of a push to completely capture the Donetsk Oblast, one of the Kremlin’s key objectives in the conflict.
    — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Technical objectives and operational milestones are expected to be disclosed as the programs progress.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of objectives
Noun
  • By the end of Saturday night, the sanctuary had served two purposes at once.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 3 Sep. 2026
  • The other scan—the spatial scan—employs a less powerful instrument called an Xgrid Portalcam, and serves several different purposes.
    — Margherita Bassi, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of purposes
Noun
  • Once the moon enters Gemini, conversations will pick up speed as plans become more flexible.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2026
  • That includes its previous plans to commit more than $10 billion to autonomous vehicles in the coming years.
    — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of plans
Noun
  • Moving away from a retrospective punishment mechanism appealed to Portsmouth too, as did the shift to a focus on liquidity, something which meshes with the aims of the independent football regulator, which recently came into operation in England.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Vance’s comments also seemed to suggest that the administration was more acutely focused on the economic impact of the war than the original aims of the war itself.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of aims
Noun
  • The leader of the United Kingdom’s Green Party has announced his intentions to run for the seat in Parliament vacated by former Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 3 Sep. 2026
  • There were good intentions behind the concept, but a chunk of viewers left the program — and have not come back.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of intentions
Noun
  • The company was founded in 2014 with high ambitions and the backing of a Chinese billionaire.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Once upon a time, Herzog was the crazy visionary, determined at all costs to realize his aesthetic ambitions to feel more, to see deeper, to explore the madness of the world, a bit of a holy fool himself.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of ambitions
Noun
  • Trying to fit Hinduism into Western categories of theisms diverges from the tradition’s diverse history of ideas while mixing internal understandings with European perspectives and categories.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Algorithms can be implemented in different programming languages, in much the same way that ideas can be expressed in English, Mandarin, or Arabic.
    — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of ideas
Noun
  • But ProPublica and The Post found that Richardson was, for all intents and purposes, still in charge of the club, a violation of his suspension.
    — Molly Hensley-Clancy, ProPublica, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Nearly every customer relationship, operational workflow, escalation path and commercial outcome emerges from one of these two conversational intents.
    — Naresh Prajapati, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of intents

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“Goals.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/goals. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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