intending
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of intending
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But as Paris hunkered down for another Saturday of protests and potential unrest, the biggest show in U.S. sports touched down here intending to plow ahead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
"We had, really without intending to, created a mouse that produced these classic lesions of Alexander disease," Messing says.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
That’s insufficient under state law to support a vested mining interest — intending to mine there eventually isn’t enough, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
According to the initial findings of investigators, the suspect entered Poland from Germany overnight Wednesday-Thursday, intending to travel on to Ukraine.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
Every year between early March and late April, about 2,000 hikers set off from Springer, most of them intending to go all the way to Katahdin.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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