Purposeful
Purposeful adjective - Fully committed to achieving a goal.
Telling and purposeful are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Telling" instead an adjective "Purposeful".
Telling
Telling adjective - Having the power to persuade.
Purposeful and telling are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Purposeful" instead an adjective "Telling".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Cyberspace: The visualisations of cyberspace in the series have been influential: A fully immersive environment, mostly indistinguishable from reality apart from telling glitches and purposeful breaks from usual physics — reality hacking by characters.
Source: Franchise / The Matrix
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