intend
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On Friday, customers crowded into a costume shop in Paris, but manager Didier Jarsale said it was not his job to "ask every customer what they intend to do with what they buy."
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026
“We disagree with the claims and intend to defend this case fully,” Anthropic said in a statement.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
"In no way did any of us intend by our involvement to endorse any political party or any individual candidate," Joensen said.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
“We disagree with the claims and intend to defend this case fully,” an Anthropic spokesperson said in a statement Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026
The truth was that I had read none of those books, nor did I intend to.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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Snap intends to argue that it is different from other apps like Meta's Instagram and Facebook because of Snapchat's focus on primarily being a messaging platform.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
“Her lack of experience is a consideration, a big consideration,” said Rios, who intends to vote for Gomez.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
As part of the deepened collaboration, Meta intends to increase the deployment of Nvidia infrastructure, including Vera Rubin and Vera central processing units, for next-generation AI agents, the companies said in a statement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Meta Platforms intends to raise nearly $100 billion through various stock offerings in the coming months, the company said on Monday.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
“Karkaroff intends to flee if the Mark burns.”
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said the state’s system for identifying and responding to potential misconduct functioned as intended.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026
Create a budget for current and anticipated expenses, including your financial goals and intended care plan.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026
Virtually no one at the time, however, interpreted it as Wood intended.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
The researchers achieved the most sensitive modern search for giant planets in this particular system, using an approach that was not intended to detect smaller worlds.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
He intended to prepare the people for the long task of rebuilding the South.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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"We had, really without intending to, created a mouse that produced these classic lesions of Alexander disease," Messing says.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
A planning application was then prepared for a smaller-scale venture including about 30 bird and animal enclosures, with Wale not intending to live onsite.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
That’s insufficient under state law to support a vested mining interest — intending to mine there eventually isn’t enough, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
According to the initial findings of investigators, the suspect entered Poland from Germany overnight Wednesday-Thursday, intending to travel on to Ukraine.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
“That’s what the patrollers would say because I have no papers. But I’m free, born free, intending to stay free.”
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
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