devote to

phrasal verb

devoted to; devoting to; devotes to

: to decide that (something) will be used for (a special purpose) : to use (time, money, energy, attention, etc.) for (something)

They devote an hour every day to worship.

Some of the money they raise will be devoted to repairing the church's roof.

The magazine will devote an entire issue to this year's winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Examples of devote to in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The additional clinical effort devoted to powerful patients came at the expense of junior patients, who received worse care and were more likely to become seriously ill. —

Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024 In 2023, 515,000 square feet of the neighborhood’s retail space was devoted to food and beverage, up from 430,000 two years earlier. —

Brian J. Rogal, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2024 Plenty of social energy is devoted to debating the value of cardio, or carbohydrates, and which new fad diet might finally work. —

NPR, 13 May 2024 This mindset impacts the amount of time and energy a candidate is willing to devote to each application. —

Eoin Driver, Fortune, 10 May 2024 Ditto the glass tubes that emitted little puffs of scent in the space devoted to Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, which attempts to recreate her own…um…body odor as unearthed from her clothes — say, a Schiaparelli cocktail dress covered in garden blooms — and environments. —

Jason Farago, New York Times, 9 May 2024 Microsoft's new data center and surrounding campus will be devoted to expanding its national cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure capacity, according to the company. —

Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024 The concerted attention lawmakers are devoting to the topic is relatively new. —

Lindsey Holden, Sacramento Bee, 3 May 2024 The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. —

Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 3 May 2024

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