intention
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And going into Friday's episode we knew that their collective cruel intention was to see that one of three faithfuls, Miranda Hart, Romesh Ranganathan or Sebastian "Bash" Croft, did not make it to breakfast.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
Golodryga’s exit comes three days after Christiane Amanpour, the network’s best-known international journalist, stated her intention to leave CNN next June.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
However, it didn’t comment on its intention to return to growth this year, as it had previously indicated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
"If the intention was to remove ineligible people, then they must say how many ineligible people were found," Lavasa said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Not two of the lot, Nat figured, had had the slightest intention of sailing on the Astrea.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
In its Claude Constitution, which defines Anthropic’s intentions for Claude’s behavior, Anthropic wrote that Claude’s moral status is “deeply uncertain,” and that it might have “representations of an emotional state, which could shape its behavior.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026
With the earnings season underway, attention now turns back to the hyperscalers, their AI capex intentions and, increasingly, the returns they’re generating on that spending, he adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Unlike opinion polls, which measure voting intentions at the moment voters are questioned, prediction platforms merely record financial transactions, political scientist Carolina Botelho told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
"Fabio is a great boy, coming in for the second time, but it was my time and my era. I had my intentions, bad intentions from the beginning," Dubois said.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
“In the thermonuclear age, any misjudgment on either side about the intentions of the other could rain more devastation in several hours than has been wrought in all the wars of human history.”
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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