intended
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“Legend” wasn’t intended as a vehicle for any actor.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
The missile wasn’t functional and was likely intended to scare off aircraft attempting to down the drone, Zaruba said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Those observations are intended to help researchers evaluate the deflection of asteroids as a potential method to defend Earth against asteroid impacts.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
Alexander said wider rail reforms would continue under the planned Great British Railways organisation, which is intended to oversee rail services across England.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Her hand-stitched Hawoo had not been intended as a howl at all but was merely her own way of writing “hello” so that the word would sound the way she liked to say it.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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
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
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
