intention
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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
“I have a strong intention to do that and introduce a KPI, which hopefully has the maturity that the markets deserve and is a reliable indicator of the progress we’re making.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Their situation is different, Valerie says, as Nathan did not travel to Russia with the intention of fighting in the war.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 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
Her views of improving her little friend’s mind, by a great deal of useful reading and conversation, had never yet led to more than a few first chapters, and the intention of going on to-morrow.
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
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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
The fall in sentiment for October was driven mainly by worsening consumer expectations for the U.K. economy in the coming year, as well as a slump in intentions to make major purchases, according to GfK.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
He said he'd "done nothing but look out for her" and "didn't walk in with any bad intentions or any malice".
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 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
But as Wohlstetter points out, that wasn’t because the American military didn’t know enough about Japan’s intentions.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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