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intend

[in-tend] / ɪnˈtɛnd /


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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

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

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

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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