intents

noun

plural of intent
1
as in purposes
something that one hopes or intends to accomplish I'm sorry that I hurt your feelings; that wasn't my intent

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2
as in senses
the idea that is conveyed or intended to be conveyed to the mind by language, symbol, or action the wording was a little unclear, but I think I grasped the intent

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Recent Examples of intents Sea turtles now nest on the secluded sandy beach that’s for all intents and purposes private, save for villagers occasionally visiting the small oceanfront temple for ceremonies. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Oct. 2026 For all intents and purposes, my genetic disorder is a breeze to deal with. — Megan Mostyn-Brown, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2026 For Abbott and for Ken Paxton, who beat Cornyn in an eye-gouging, rabbit-punching Republican Senate primary, the answer was, for all intents, the latter. — Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026 That means moving past runbooks that describe how a human should investigate a problem, toward network intents that describe the state the network is supposed to be in. — Song Pang, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026 But ProPublica and The Post found that Richardson was, for all intents and purposes, still in charge of the club, a violation of his suspension. — Molly Hensley-Clancy, ProPublica, 20 Aug. 2026 For all intents and purposes, an unknown actor can wade unburdened into the depths of Bond, able to transform without a viewer’s prior expectation tainting the image of 007. — Emily Maskell, IndieWire, 10 July 2026 Dadiet, for all intents and purposes, is entering a contract year. — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 9 July 2026 For all intents and purposes, this is a team that should not exist. — Arminka Helic, Time, 30 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intents
  1. purposes
  2. senses
  3. goals
  4. intentions
  5. plans
  6. meanings
  7. aims
  8. contents
Noun
  • No student information is to be disclosed for immigration enforcement purposes without a court order or subpoena, according to state law.
    — Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Other independents in the Senate, including Maine's Angus King on the moderate end and Vermont's Bernie Sanders on the left, caucus with Democrats for organizational purposes and committee assignments.
    — NICHOLAS INGRAM, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of purposes
Noun
  • The senses of anyone entering these tombs were heavily manipulated.
    — Jacqueline Ortoleva, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Your spidey-senses start tingling as the game winds down, and something just tells you to start rolling the camera.
    — Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of senses
Noun
  • Mercury in your 10th House quincunxes Saturn in your 3rd, creating friction between your public goals and the details, conversations, or information required to support them.
    — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Income, bills, savings goals and other expenses change over time.
    — Ashley Lynch, Charlotte Observer, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of goals
Noun
  • The signatures of these AI leaders might not reveal much about their intentions or their motivations.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2026
  • To that end, Gershin added more backgrounds and foley, adding detail and supervising a pass in Dolby Atmos, all along being careful not to betray the intentions of the original work.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of intentions
Noun
  • Construction originally began back in 2006 as part of Qatar's ambitious plans to host the FIFA World Cup in 2022.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • That's according to a person familiar with the plans who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly and cautioned the plans could shift.
    — NICHOLAS INGRAM, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of plans
Noun
  • Carlson’s essay offers a deeper look at the elaborate symbolic language surrounding 22, A Million, including the meanings behind the album’s unusual song titles and iconography.
    — SPIN Staff, SPIN, 30 Sep. 2026
  • The terms adjourned and continued are similar but have distinct meanings.
    — Michael Ruiz , Kayleigh McEnany , Bryan Llenas, FOXNews.com, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of meanings
Noun
  • Naomi’s work clashes with both men’s professional aims, of course, but the real power of the story lies in its last third, which is set two and a half decades into the future and provides an unusual vision of climate change.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
  • My aims are to improve our quality of life on everything from affordability to traffic to public safety; to restore fiscal sanity to our public finances; and to end the brazen self-dealing that has become business as usual in local government.
    — Miami Herald staff, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of aims
Noun
  • Investigators obtained phone metadata through a pen register, a surveillance tool that records information such as numbers contacted and the timing of calls, rather than the contents of conversations.
    — Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Officers closed the Macy’s side of the parking garage while bomb squad officers examined the contents of the suitcase.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of contents

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“Intents.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intents. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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