intent
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About 30,000 Minnesotans were trained as observers, all intent on making sure that the human beings around them were being treated with basic dignity and given due process.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
“If you’re thinking about how to engage your younger generations, you actually have to prioritize intent more strongly than you did just five years ago,” Reichheld says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Meanwhile, new Defence Secretary Wes Streeting has insisted there was "no ill intent" behind apparent comments about the early release scheme, which were caught on camera.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
"We strongly believe there was no malicious intent on their part," Delangue wrote, referring to OpenAI.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
There is no wind yet, but their intent is clear.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
Yet David craves Monica’s maternal affection as if he were real — and for all intents and purposes, he is.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026
“For all intents and purposes, the Strait of Hormuz is still essentially closed.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026
The entire stock market will soon become, for all intents and purposes, the meme-stock market, and your retirement accounts are at the mercy of their whims.
From Slate ● May 15, 2026
But by the time Kosovo police's special forces took control of the monastery in late afternoon, the surviving group members had somehow slipped away despite being, to all intents and purposes, surrounded.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
To all intents and purposes, Earth now was dead; they had been away from it for three or four years.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
Vocabulary lists containing intent
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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19th Amendment (1920)
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act V
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