intent on
Example Sentences
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Instead, she is focused on organizing other former TPS holders intent on finding a way to stay in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
About 30,000 Minnesotans were trained as observers, all intent on making sure that the human beings around them were being treated with basic dignity and given due process.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
The division was also under pressure to improve its financial performance as Shari Redstone, then-chair of parent Paramount, was intent on improving the company’s balance sheet ahead of a sale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
“We didn’t know at the time that the internet was going to basically turn into a 24-7 shopping mall,” intent on making shopping quotidian and constant, she says.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
Ruth May is so intent on winning Hide and Seek, or any game for that matter, she would probably go ahead and burn up before she’d ever yell and give herself away.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
