intention

Example Sentences

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If designers understood the hurdles that users faced, they could reduce the friction between intention and action by making the machine intuitive to use.

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2026

Many students take breaks from school with no real intention of returning.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

He had no intention of using any of these items, but that wasn’t the question he had been asked.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

Spain and Denmark have also announced their intention to introduce a digital age of majority for social networks.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

By the end of the summer, he declared his intention to make the eradication of poverty a key legislative objective in 1964.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander