intended
Example Sentences
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“Options and futures now allow people to gamble on the price without actually being involved in the blockchain, which is antithetical to what BTC was intended for.”
From MarketWatch
But beyond noting that the training was intended to promote “executive development,” police officials said they didn’t have any information about what the trip accomplished or how it benefited the department.
From Los Angeles Times
These measures are intended to save fuel in order to promote "food and electricity production" and enable "the preservation of fundamental activities that generate foreign currency," said Perez-Oliva Fraga.
From Barron's
"The installation was announced in advance and intended entirely to safeguard the trainees," the legal representative told the BBC in a written response.
From BBC
A later generation of sociologists might have diagnosed Göring’s martial flamboyance as a form of “homeovestism”—that is, exaggerated and often impractical gender-normative dress or behavior intended to signal elite social status.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.