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View definitions for intent on

intent on

adjective as in bent on

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He’s intent on making Shakespeare’s Lago from Othello look like Atticus Finch.

From Salon

He had already been hours on the road with his wife and two children in his rugged-looking SUV, but was intent on going on — even though he didn’t know where the family would sleep.

It appears that Trump is intent on stacking the nation's most important health agencies with people who are hostile to modern public health science and vaccines.

From Salon

It appears that Trump is intent on stacking the nation's most important health agencies with people who are hostile to modern public health science and vaccines, which is exactly what you would expect from a vengeful megalomaniac who's put an anti-vaxx conspiracist in charge of them.

From Salon

And if Trump decides to let her see everything without going through the process—because he views the FBI as a “weaponized” arm of the “deep state,” intent on thwarting his ambitions to blow the place up—there is nothing anyone can do about it.

From Slate

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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