intend
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Do you intend to take out a 30-year mortgage?
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
“We intend to address the issues through the appropriate legal process, where the relevant facts and documentation can be properly presented and considered.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
The family intend to eventually take Mason's case to the European Court of Human Rights to try to challenge the deportation order.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
This is the attitude I intend to take with me to the bar today.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
“I’m a doctor. Doctors are supposed to understand everything. But I don’t understand everything, and I don’t intend to let it worry me.”
From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
It is unclear how Trump intends to block Bombardier from doing business in the US.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Texas-based Greenland Energy intends to spend about $60 million on exploring sites on the Jameson Land peninsula in eastern Greenland, alongside British mining company 80 Mile.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Dame Siobhan Keegan said she intends to have her sentencing group look at character references amid concerns from victims that they have no opportunity to challenge them in court.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
The government intends to sell up to 49.9 percent of TAP Portugal to a strategic investor, with staff to hold five percent.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
The Consistorial Court of Discipline intends to send a squad to the cave as soon as they land.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Annuities, however, are not the only answer — and even if you do get one, Chatzky’s approach is not intended as an all-in strategy.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
The New Yalu River Bridge, intended as an alternative and eventual replacement of the Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge, is expected by experts to be completed this year.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
"That was what it was intended to do, and that's what it does brilliantly well."
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Though the exhibition intended to grapple with Galliano’s fall from grace and create a necessary dialogue about the limitations of artistic reverence, the dissent was too strong.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
“I did. But only because I know you intended to squander the Widow Ashton’s fortune on your ill-conceived business plans.”
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
The figures vary across the UK - with 48% of applicants in Scotland intending to live at home, compared with 20% in Wales - but the trend is rising across the board.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Recently, I went to the grocery store intending, more or less, to buy ingredients for spaghetti with a weeknight Bolognese.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
She returned to the organization that drafted her intending to help them get back to the postseason.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
The Wiener campaign described it as “the world’s first AI trained to say no to anything you ask,” intending to highlight her record on housing, transit, and other issues.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026
She’s in jeans and a billowy shirt—obviously not intending to go to the revel.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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