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• The Speed 12 did win a few races in Britain but never competed at Le Mans as intended.
  — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 31 Mar. 2023
• Many of you are on an endless quest to own the best printer or figure out the right tips to make your printers work as intended.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
• At the time, 31 of the rocket's 33 engines ignited and burned as intended.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 1 Apr. 2023
• While the blemishes may vary, the merchant says all of the cookware will perform as intended.
  — Nena Farrell, WIRED, 12 July 2023
• Whether the implant works as intended also remains to be seen.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 4 Feb. 2024
• But what is the evidence that such programs work as intended?
  — Marcella Alsan, STAT, 26 Dec. 2023
• The zippers are difficult to distinguish and didn't work as intended in our tests.
  — Cai Cramer, Peoplemag, 4 Apr. 2024
• The front passenger seat weight sensor may crack and short circuit, failing to suppress the air bag as intended.
  — USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2024
• On Tuesday, however, Homendy said the system appeared to have been working as intended, and was not the cause of the expulsion of the door plug.
  — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
• The bullet pierced the cooling fins of the transformer, as intended, causing mineral oil to gush onto the sagebrush.
  — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• If the system works as intended, those migrants could be on their way to deportation with a felony charge in hand within days.
  — Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, 11 May 2023
• Our water systems have worked largely as intended for decades — but they weren’t built for the 21st century.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
• Our water systems have worked largely as intended for decades — but they weren’t built for the 21st century.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
• But come by our houses during the season to find the streams of admirers enjoying the displays with glee, as intended.
  — WSJ, 30 Oct. 2023
• The Fed’s latest series of rate hikes has worked as intended in taming inflation.
  — Steve Garmhausen, wsj.com, 20 Sep. 2023
• Now a true believer, Ben proves his camera works as intended.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2023
• The crafts are also designed to appeal to a fairly wide age range, from about 3 to about 9; though the company states that younger crafters will likely need help to complete the projects as intended.
  — Julia Pelly, Parents, 24 Oct. 2023
• This is the trend cycle — dollar signs in its eyes — working as intended: an antique hits shelves once more just as those very products have been cleared out of makeup bags and tossed in the trash.
  — Emily Leibert, Allure, 25 Jan. 2024
• The rate hikes have slowly helped to suppress inflation, though perhaps not as quickly as intended.
  — Matt Ott, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2023
• An air bag that does not deploy as intended increases the risk of injury during a crash, the company said in a safety report.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 12 June 2023
• Bard will also be able to help debug code if a particular snippet doesn’t work as intended.
  — Matt Novak, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• The fact that the new Biden system is working as intended is encouraging, Nuñez-Neto said in an interview.
  — Nick Miroff and Toluse Olorunnipa, Anchorage Daily News, 13 July 2023
• One of his bombs forced an American Airlines flight to carry out an emergency landing in 1979, but the plane landed safely as the device failed to work as intended.
  — Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 12 June 2023
• When the actual virus came along, these antibodies didn’t work as intended.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 31 Oct. 2022
• When Direct Touch works as intended, using my hands is also way more convenient than using the Quest’s controllers.
  — Jay Peters, The Verge, 24 Mar. 2023
• Proponents of consent decrees say the roadblocks and dead ends show the settlements working as intended.
  — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2023
• Using the mouse as intended (situated at the bottom of the keyboard) was still a little clunky for me, but using the slim wrist rest (sold separately) did help reclaim some of my desk space lost by the depth of the mouse.
  — PCMAG, 27 Mar. 2024
• And like bridges in the physical world, these digital bridges must be engineered carefully to function and last as intended.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
• Even if consumers did use price transparency tools, that behavior may not drive cost savings as intended.
  — Deb Gordon, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
• Every thread, every stitch, is laid by hand, precisely as intended.
  — Grace Edquist, Vogue, 11 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024