Thesaurus results for INTENDS

intends

verb

present tense third-person singular of intend

as in plans

to have in mind as a purpose or goal an aspiring entrepreneur who intends to revolutionize the biotech industry

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as in means

to communicate or convey (as an idea) to the mind lawyers for both sides argued for days about what was intended by a particular phrase in the law

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Recent Examples of intends Cornell said Yates will report her findings and recommendations to a special committee of its Board of Trustees, which intends to share the results with the university community. — Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026 There is no indication the charity intends to share its classrooms’ recordings with anybody else, but fears about the potential misuse of surveillance technology are heightened in Gaza after three years of war. — ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026 To do that, Ellison intends to make more movies and TV shows than rivals. — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026 The team now intends to hunt for more similar systems within the Milky Way. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2026 Inspired by the Spanish luxury house’s own beginnings as an artisanal workshop, the award intends to recognize excellence and innovation in craft in all its forms. — Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2026 Manes said the family intends to move forward as quickly as possible. — Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026 The company intends to use the funding to build a mobile app, expand its 22-person team, and broaden the range of assets users can trade around the clock. — Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2026 After the test, the company intends to move the reactor to another location within the laboratory and complete the process of managing its nuclear fuel. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2026

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Whether Musk plans to build (or buy) another wireless network or pressure the incumbents to strike deals with SpaceX, the telecoms' oligopoly is looking shakier.

— Tobias Burns, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026
Paramount plans to upgrade the theater with state-of-the-art projection systems and in-seat food and drink service, Rick Caruso, whose company owns the Palisades Village shopping center where the Bay Theater is located, said in an interview.

— Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of plans

Verb

Price optimization means choosing prices that advance business goals, such as increasing profits, attracting shoppers or clearing unsold goods.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
This defense needs to find a way to make quarterbacks uncomfortable without becoming blitz crazy, and that means Chop Robinson, Josh Uche and Malik Herring must step up and win more of their 1-on-1 assignments.

— Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of means

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The Congolese government aims to take over by next year, but has struggled with the recent uncertainty, said Polydor Kabila, coordinator of the universal healthcare program in the president's office.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026
To help close that gap, the Netherlands aims to build 7 gigawatts of nuclear capacity by 2050.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of aims

Verb

Part of what Myha’la’s wink signifies is how much Celebrity Traitors UK is about, well, being a celebrity.

— Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2026
The appointment signifies a new chapter for Zankov, formalizing a partnership that has already played a pivotal role in the development of his business over the past two years.

— Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of signifies

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Given the enormous threat AI poses to millions of jobs, the governor’s framework thoughtfully contemplates how to center Maryland workers in regulation of this technology.

— Matt Post, Baltimore Sun, 1 Oct. 2026
Neither yet contemplates an agent that delegates to another agent at four in the morning.

— Dr. Aditya Vikram Kashyap, Forbes.com, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of contemplates

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The finding implies that methanol masers are a common product of all planet-forming discs and therefore are produced by processes that are universal in star- and planet-birth, regardless of the protostar's mass.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Oct. 2026
This implies demand of roughly 120 million metric tons per year of green ammonia by mid-century.

— Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of implies

Verb

But the term denotes highly advanced artificial intelligence that could surpass human thought, not the category of AI — an already nebulous term — as a whole.

— Adi Robertson, The Verge, 9 Oct. 2026
The position of the sun denotes the time zone, and the mountain range is a graph of price.

— Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 28 Sep. 2026

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