as intended
idiom
: in the way that has been planned
If everything goes as intended, he will graduate this spring.
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Our health insurance worked as intended, but cancer put my wife’s plan for returning to work after maternity leave on hold.
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Paul Thornton, Twin Cities, 14 Jan. 2025
But international sanctions aimed at bankrupting Russia’s war machine have failed to deliver as intended, and Biden urged the incoming Trump team to stand with Kyiv.
—Laura Kelly, The Hill, 13 Jan. 2025
Prentiss resolved to monitor the program to make sure that the money was spent as intended.
—Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 13 Jan. 2025
To its credit, the series’ action scenes are exactly as evocative as intended.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 9 Jan. 2025
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Paul Thornton, Twin Cities, 14 Jan. 2025
But international sanctions aimed at bankrupting Russia’s war machine have failed to deliver as intended, and Biden urged the incoming Trump team to stand with Kyiv.
—Laura Kelly, The Hill, 13 Jan. 2025
Prentiss resolved to monitor the program to make sure that the money was spent as intended.
—Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 13 Jan. 2025
To its credit, the series’ action scenes are exactly as evocative as intended.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 9 Jan. 2025
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“As intended.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/as%20intended. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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