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Intended or expected to do something, or meant for a particular purpose or person.

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  • get sad? Oh, of course, I do, Big Bird. What it meant to you, how you see it now, and why. Thank you very much. Are you ready to start? Yes. Let's bring up the lights, please.

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  • So old-fashioned is another word that we use; people can be old-fashioned too, by the way. But if something is old-fashioned, it means that it is... I put old-fashioned, but I meant to put old-fashioned—let me just check that for a sec.

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  • But if something is old-fashioned, it means that it is... I put old-fashioned, but I meant to put old-fashioned—let me just check that for a sec.

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  • Congratulations. Now we can finally watch Green Acres the way it was meant to be seen. [laughter] So, uh, which one is mine?

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  • ever again ♪ ♪ Like we used to be ♪ ♪ When we was teenagers ♪ ♪ But then of course everything always happens for a reason ♪ ♪ I guess it was never meant to be ♪ ♪ But it's just something we have no control over ♪ ♪ And that's what destiny is ♪ ♪ So no more worries ♪ ♪ Rest your head and go to sleep ♪ ♪ Maybe one day we'll wake up ♪ ♪ And this'll all just be a dream ♪ ♪ Now hush little baby don't you cry ♪ ♪ Everything's gonna be all right ♪ ♪ Stiffen that upper lip up little lady ♪ ♪ I told ya Daddy's here to hold ya ♪ ♪ Through the night ♪ ♪ I know Mommy's not here right now ♪ ♪ And we don't know why ♪ ♪ We

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  • Cosmopolitanism has a long history. It goes back at least to the cynics of the 4th century BC, who first coined the phrase "cosmopolites," or "citizen of the world." It was meant to be paradoxical; a citizen belongs to a particular polis, in a civilization where Aristotle could argue that the ideal political community, the city-state, would be small enough that its citizens should know each other's personal characters.

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  • Your body releases water from your skin and it's meant to help cool you off.

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  • I'm also my mattress because I think you're meant to do this every six months. And I'm using this really comfortable linen duvet cover from Piglet in Bed.

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  • That I had with my relationship to music and being an artist and that like persona. And I was able to kind of come home and address it and sit with it and change the things that weren't working and fall in love with it again. And it all kind of, yeah, it all happened absolutely how it was meant to be. So what is different about your relationship with music today than four years ago? So much. I mean, so much.

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  • This was meant to be an herb garden and I never planted any herbs in it and I'm just looking at it now and it looks so crazy in here [laughing].

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  • These chairs are not meant to be put outside. They are very delicate and expensive, but they look so good out here, so who cares?

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  • First proposition: All of the creature's natural predispositions are destined eventually to develop fully and in accordance with their purpose. This proposition is supported both by external observation and by internal observation or dissection. An organ that is not meant to be used or an arrangement that does not achieve its purpose is a contradiction in the teleological theory of nature; for if we

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  • the way i have described eighth proposition one can regard the history of the human species at large as the realization of a concealed plan of nature meant to bring into being in internally and to this end externally perfect state constitution as the only condition in which nature can fully developed all of its predispositions in humankind this proposition follows from the previous one one

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  • BECAUSE EVERY DAY YOU STAY STUCK IN KNOWING, YOU'RE GIVING UP GROUND. YOU'RE TRADING MOVEMENT FOR MAINTENANCE, AND MAINTENANCE NEVER CREATES PROGRESS. YOU WERE NOT BUILT TO REHEARSE FOREVER. YOU WEREN'T MEANT TO SIT ON THE EDGE OF POTENTIAL, PLANNING AND PREPARING WHILE YOUR OPPORTUNITIES EXPIRE. YOU ARE BUILT TO MOVE, TO TRY, TO APPLY,

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  • When people say to a lot of the people that I hang out with, "Oh, you're an evangelical Christian," which is in my context often meant to be a way of preparing you for saying that someone said something silly.

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  • And that's why he's showing so much arrogance in this song to say to everyone, I'm in a system meant to trap me, yet I'm still at the top of the world.

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  • And that's really starting to affect what kind of POV we're meant to see Kendrick at.

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  • If one of the new habits and skills you're trying to develop is learning to learn and you're trying to figure out what are the triggers to look out for and what am I meant to be doing instead to replace that, then I think you should check out this video where I have gone through what learning well actually looks like so that you know what the new habit you're trying to form should be.

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  • only ballroom and court dances are suitable for our daughter. >> Part of the education here at Alfea is teaching the girls to be free thinkers, [music] to try new things, and I, for one, am proud of Aisha's interest in all forms of dance. >> Aisha is meant to be a princess and inspire her kingdom. >> But she is.

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  • strength sometimes, and well, if I had meant to hurt you, you wouldn't have any ribs left. So you get off lightly. Let's leave it there, okay? You know, I love playing military parts. Yeah, well, as you know, I was in the SAS. No, I knew you did that TV show about the SAS. Yeah, but how did I know how to do all that [ __ ] in it? I assumed

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