intend
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He said Canada and the EU intend to hammer out their future relationship at a summit next month in Montreal.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
“We intend this to be part of a broader push to redouble efforts on our safety and alignment work.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 12, 2026
I’ve never had a plan and I don’t intend to start now.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Every year, the federal government also sets a target—not a quota—for veteran hiring by contractors, who must design plans to show how they intend to recruit ex-service members.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
"But we intend to call several of the law enforcement officers present in the courtroom, and I would like to invoke the rule of sequestration."
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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Mr. Warsh has spent the summer explaining that he intends to reduce inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
"Resources for DRI... are already available and the government intends to use them," he added.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
The office intends to have an environmental contractor remove the lithium batteries, which it says will be properly disposed of.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Agility also confirmed it still intends to go public by the end of the year through a special-purpose acquisition company deal that would value it at $2.5 billion.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
The Consistorial Court of Discipline intends to send a squad to the cave as soon as they land.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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It's a line he now says was specifically intended to be a riposte to the other Charles' suggestion that she would quickly be forgotten: Diana "will never be extinguished from our minds".
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
He had never intended to become an activist; he found himself in the role by accident.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
This is where Re-Oak is opening its first nursery in the Los Angeles area, intended to serve hard-hit Altadena.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Roman was built around a five-year primary mission and a five-year extended mission, giving it a total fuel budget intended to support 10 years of operations.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
There, Horace Hunley and his partners intended to operate the submarine as a privateer, helping the Confederacy break the blockade the North had placed on Southern ports.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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People roll a portion of their balance to an IRA to “get started,” fully intending to deal with the stock later.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Mr. Riley’s footnote on this malapropism: “Surely Hastert is intending to say ‘algorithms.’”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Ahead of the event, the force said officers would "relentlessly" pursue the "small minority who come intending to do harm", and had banned more than 330 people from attending as part of bail conditions.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Recently, I went to the grocery store intending, more or less, to buy ingredients for spaghetti with a weeknight Bolognese.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
I don’t know what I’d been intending to do, but when Ruth said this, for some reason, without really thinking about it, I just stepped out of the car.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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