intention
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Executives at each of those companies clearly indicated in May that they had no intention of granting Starlink this sort of arrangement.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026
"This is not a case where there is intention to kill or premeditation," he added.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Your stepmother may have no intention of leaving the house to any of her late husband’s children.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
The intention is generous: to draw Golding into a wider contemporary conversation, to show how persistently his ideas recur.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
For months, Johnson had been assuring Americans that he had no intention of expanding the country’s role in Vietnam.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
He said although he felt there were "good intentions" behind the evacuation, but it was "just not organised properly".
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
With all our resources and good intentions, California can’t continue to let predators win simply because they’re more organized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
If machines cannot interpret the unspoken context behind human intentions, reliably aligning advanced AI systems with human goals may prove impossible.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Charles and Caroline mourn their part in that displacement; they set out for Kansas with the best of intentions, lured by false advertisements of “free” land that never was.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
The Russian offered a second document as proof of his genuine intentions.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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