intent
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After their jog, Gallardo told Barrio Athletics runners that he had no ill intent when he chose Leimert Park.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
French drone company Harmattan AI separately signed a letter of intent with Iraq's defence ministry concerning autonomous air-defence systems.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
Under past ICJ cases, genocidal intent can be proved directly through evidence of a “genocidal plan” or inferred from a “pattern of conduct.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
"These scenes have caused disruption for people and, given that people are dressed in black wearing balaclavas, there is a fear factor and obvious malign intent being communicated to our residents," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
I’m in the zone, so intent on what I’m doing that I don’t hear them call my name.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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By Sony’s gauge, the game disc, for all intents and purposes, has been dead with audiences for a while.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
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
You know what other “Toy Story” character is, for all intents and purposes, a dog?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Chief executive Dan Finley told the BBC earlier this week it would "operate to all intents and purposes as Debenhams Group".
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
He was forty, out of baseball, and, for all intents and purposes, out of life.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
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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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