bent on
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Other prominent voices seem bent on convincing us that telework plays a significant negative factor in women’s career advancement.
From Salon ● May 10, 2026
But Standard Oil finally went under the knife in 1911, split into 34 separate companies that sometimes seem like they are bent on reunifying.
From Barron's ● May 2, 2026
The regular crowd shots of the waiting room too often reduce the afflicted into a zombie-like horde bent on making life more difficult for our beloved medical staff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026
Nostalgia, though, is a peril that the author, an art historian at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, is bent on warding off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
Now they seemed bent on making a fool of him.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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