intending

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Leaving flight transponders on "is likely deliberate", said UK drone expert Dr Steve Wright, with the US intending to send "a clear message it has eyes in the sky to maintain the squeeze".

From BBC • May 20, 2026

O'Neill is intending to leave Celtic soon - and there is no sign at all that he intends to leave quietly.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

“Nobody was intending to pre-empt the New Jersey state gaming commission,” he says.

From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026

Maher said he brought with him to the dinner a list of almost five dozen epithets the president had hurled his way over the years, intending to ask Trump to sign it for him.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

One of them—it might have been No-Name herself—had to swerve heavily out of the way, because she’d been diving low, intending to skim just over his head.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman