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The Justice Department maintains that its efforts are intended to prevent illegal voting, which is prohibited in federal elections.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026
Create a budget for current and anticipated expenses, including your financial goals and intended care plan.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026
If BFT needs claudin-4 to attach to colon cells, perhaps a substitute could lure the toxin away from its intended target.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
Schayes recalled that when his mother told an aunt he intended to play professionally, the aunt questioned whether basketball was a suitable career for a “nice Jewish boy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
He intended to prepare the people for the long task of rebuilding the South.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
Spurred on by Berowne, “a man replete with mocks,” they double down on whimsy, dressing up for some reason as Russians to bamboozle their intendeds.
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
The online star, who has more than 20m YouTube subscribers, intendeds to sue Paradise for defamation for the "irreparable damages" to his reputation.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2021
The setting is Naples, and old philosopher Don Alfonso bets the boys that their intendeds are fallible.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2014
What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and desert their chosen intendeds for my sake?'
From Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
Her sketch of a sojourn upon the Lioness Range is not tempting: young gentlemen who intend leading brides to the deadly peninsula should hide the book from their fair intendeds.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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