Intending and Potential

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Potential and intending are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Potential" instead an adjective "Intending".

Nearby Words: intent, intended, intension

Potential adjective - Existing only as a possibility and not in fact.

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Intending and potential are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Intending" instead an adjective "Potential".

Lawton, realized Jason's potential and spent his entire life grooming him for power and feeding his potential, intending Jason to take over the family business after he dies.

Source: Literature / Spin
A running theme in Haruhi Suzumiya is keeping the title character from getting bored, since as an immature and easily-fed up Reality Warper, she has the potential to destroy the world as we know it (without consciously intending to) and remake it into something more entertaining.

Source: Person of Mass Destruction

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