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bent on

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. bent, bent on(p), dead set(p), out to(p)adjective

    fixed in your purpose

    "bent on going to the theater"; "dead set against intervening"; "out to win every event"

Wiktionary

  1. bent onadjective

    Completely determined; obstinate.

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  1. bent on

    "Bent on" is a phrase used to indicate a strong determination or commitment of someone to achieve a particular goal or objective. It suggests a level of persistence or resolve, often regardless of the difficulties or challenges that might arise.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of bent on in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of bent on in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of bent on in a Sentence

  1. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly:

    The future we worry about every single day is how do we spot and stop them as they flow out, bent on continuing the global jihad by taking the fight to innocent people?

  2. Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf:

    I want to assure the citizens of Oakland that we are hell-bent on rooting out this disgusting culture.

  3. President Rodrigo Duterte:

    We have so many Filipinos working mainly in the Middle East. I am nervous. Iran seems to be hell-bent on a retaliation, which I think will come.

  4. Joe Biden:

    Putin and Russia met each of the proposals with disinterest in any negotiation, with lies and ultimatums.Russia was bent on violence from the start.

  5. Edward Alsworth Ross:

    During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under martial law have been so numerous as to have become an old story. They are attacked at the instigation of an economically and socially powerful class, itself enjoying to the full the advantages of free communications, but bent on denying them to the class it holds within its power...

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