intend
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He also said he did not intend to shoot Thongchai, whom he described as a "good friend".
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
They intend to recommend a path forward in this fall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
He also plans to lend his own campaign $1 million, which seems like the sort of thing you do if you intend to gut it out.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
A domicile is a permanent home they intend to return to, no matter how many residences they have.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Forgetting the stone, Guosim spoke in an awed voice, “D’you mean you actually intend to walk right up and speak to Snow?”
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
She intends to be back in South America next summer, provided England navigate two rounds of qualification play-offs in the autumn to book their place at the Women's World Cup, which Brazil will host.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
The latest polls suggest that a full 20 percent of the electorate intends to vote for the bin, a gigantic improvement on any of Binface’s past showings, and in any case an embarrassment for Farage.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2026
Bank of Queensland intends to pay a special dividend of A$0.15/share.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
I don’t care if the officers caught on tape didn’t intend to offend, and I don’t care what Hochman intends the message to be with his vast over-charging of Flores.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
I don’t know how he intends to do it—or when—but I am sure he does.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
It is intended to measure how sensitive an individual stock is to fluctuations in the broader market.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
In 1962 Parker was working on a script for “The Good Soup,” a film intended as a vehicle for Monroe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
He is still building back his strength, no pun intended.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
And yet the plan is not working — at least not in the way its architects intended.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
But sitting in bed with his laptop, well after he had turned out the lights and intended to sleep, the normal excuses escaped him.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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
In one case, an intending bride was found to have presented her brother as the groom in an attempt to benefit from the scheme.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
We’ve tried a downsizing-surge approach, intending to spend days in the storage room, say, to make major headway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
He started Arcee in 2023 with Jacob Solawetz and Brian Benedict, not intending to build a foundation model.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Then I left the castle, intending to seek the mallow root I had promised for Elnora’s medicine.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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