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Nike declined to comment on pending litigation, but in court filings the company denies its product is “defective and unsafe for its intended purposes” and neither “caused injury and/or contributed to the risk of injury.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
“These measures are intended to reduce potential flooding impacts, but cannot eliminate all flood risks,” the city said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
The ECI has rejected allegations of impropriety in the "special intensive revision", saying it was intended to remove duplicate and ineligible voters.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
Initially, Leading the Future “definitely intended to deploy the same playbook” as Fairshake, he added.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
Penelope blushed, for she had not intended to be heard.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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Spurred on by Berowne, “a man replete with mocks,” they double down on whimsy, dressing up for some reason as Russians to bamboozle their intendeds.
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
The online star, who has more than 20m YouTube subscribers, intendeds to sue Paradise for defamation for the "irreparable damages" to his reputation.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2021
The setting is Naples, and old philosopher Don Alfonso bets the boys that their intendeds are fallible.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2014
What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and desert their chosen intendeds for my sake?'
From Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
Her sketch of a sojourn upon the Lioness Range is not tempting: young gentlemen who intend leading brides to the deadly peninsula should hide the book from their fair intendeds.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton