Meant in sentence

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My response to him is, 'Whatever you meant to do to me, screw you, you're not going to do it.'"

Then "Chicago" came out, used similar graphics, and the Public Theater's identity was just totally eaten and taken away, which meant I had to change it.

So, the gallery wanted me to have another show in two years, which meant that I really had to paint these paintings much faster than I had ever done them.

I come as one, but I stand as 10,000, encouraged by the hard-edged hope that thousands of us have come together to reform and transform the criminal justice system, encouraged that we are doing our jobs as we are meant to do them.

In this case, it was picking up bones and creating a tool, using it as a tool, which meant that apes just, sort of, running around and eating and doing each other figured out they can make things if they used a tool.

I couldn't wrap my head around what that prognosis meant.

And I thought about what that meant, not just for myself but for so many other women.

The change meant that recruits had about three weeks out of a five-month-long academy to pass the fitness exam.

All lowercase letters meant that this was an egalitarian, complete lowering of everything into one equal playing field.

That meant that you can take the stuff right here, and turn it into almost anything in your body.

Because the rehearsal meant a great challenge to me.

This meant not only an artistic triumph, but also a profound emotional sympathy between the public of the most advanced nations of the world and the musical youth of Latin America, as seen in Venezuela, giving these audiences a message of music, vitality, energy, enthusiasm and strength.

She convinced her supervisors to let her stay– which meant doing the work of six radio operators singlehandedly.

Legislation that was meant to better regulate its largest players has hurt its smaller ones, resulting in most of the industry's assets to be controlled by the top one percent.

Scientists and experts have studied our glaciers for decades, and their report kept me awake at night, agonizing about the bad news and what it meant for my country and my people.

I think this is what David Deutsch meant in 2005, when he ended his Oxford TEDTalk by saying he had two principles he'd like to share for living, and he would like to carve them on stone tablets.

"Quasars" originally meant "quasi-stellar object," which means "things that look a bit like stars."

As a boy, all I wanted was to be accepted and liked by the other boys, but that acceptance meant I had to acquire this almost disgusted view of the feminine, and since we were told that feminine is the opposite of masculine, I either had to reject embodying any of these qualities or face rejection myself.

Because being soft meant that I was bullied.

It had everything to do with me and my longing to be accepted and to play a role that was never meant for me.

And the incredible thing was she really meant it.

But the emergence of formal competitive play in the late 19th century meant that strategic calculation would eventually trump dramatic flair.

Everyone was very excited about this archaeological find, because it meant that they might finally be able to assemble a single dodo skeleton.

[Under your burkini you could be hiding a sex bomb] Political cartoons are meant to provoke, just like opinions.

But before all, they are meant to be thought-provoking.

And the very fact that they worked in a provisional space meant that for Beckett, they could blow out a wall; they could do "Cherry Orchard" and blow a hole through the floor, and so forth.

When my doctor asked what I do and I told him, he thought I meant organizing, like, Marie Kondo-style.

But when we fail to give our best, we simply haven't met the test, of giving all and saving none until the game is really won; of showing what is meant by grit; of playing through when others quit; of playing through, not letting up.

In those days, one hid much else as well: grown men didn't embrace one another, unless someone had died, and not always then; you shook hands or, at a ball game, thumped your friend's back and exchanged blows meant to be codes for affection; once out of childhood you'd never again know the shock of your father's whiskers on your cheek, not until mores at last had evolved, and you could hug another man, then hold on for a moment, then even kiss (your fathers bristles white and stiff now).

Here, in a place that was like Disney World, the Olympics, carnivals, museums, all in one, there were three conflicting displays of what it meant to be black in the United States.

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