Intend
Intend verb - To have in mind as a purpose or goal.
Work
Work verb - To be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind).
Mutual synonyms
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- He has said he doesn't intend to have a career as a director and only made the adaptation because he loved Wallace's work and the project meant a lot to him personally.
Source: One-Book Author -
No matter what your intentions were when you made a work, poor reception and bad publicity affects the context in which people see it, and your work will not be seen how you intend it but instead become a political or topical football.
Source: No Such Thing as Bad Publicity - The opposite trope, Periphery Demographic, is when a work finds an audience of a variety it did not intend to appeal to.
Source: Target Audience
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