intent
Example Sentences
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Their names have not been released, and law enforcement sources said they were hobbyists who do not appear to be intent on causing harm.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2026
Mitchell added himself to the list of tame dismissals, but Phillips arrived with intent, punching the ball through the off side.
From BBC • Jun. 17, 2026
It is disproportionately female, politically diverse within a broadly liberal frame and deeply attuned to questions of character and intent.
From Salon • Jun. 17, 2026
Such claims also require medical reports and paper trails and may entail an uphill struggle to prove malicious intent.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 17, 2026
But if he’d perceived Clare’s desperation, if on some deep, subconscious level he’d felt the truth—that this mushroom was a living thing, precious to another soul—it did not change the boy’s intent.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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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