intensions
- plural of intension.
Example Sentences
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This is a type of online fraud called "cloaking", whereby malicious adverts are able to get past a social media firm's review stage because the fraudsters have hidden their intensions.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2024
When asked at a panel last month about Putin’s intensions, Germany’s navy chief scoffed at the notion of a Russian invasion.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022
But even those with the best of intensions are bound to slip up occasionally, especially when they’re up against extenuating circumstances.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2020
Hall intervened and opened the floor to discussion, much of it critical of the department and mistrustful of the committee’s intensions.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 2019
I thanked him for his kind intensions; and assured him that I should not quit the town till I had terminated this affair, in one way or another.
From The Coquette The History of Eliza Wharton by Foster, Hannah Webster
