as intended
idiom
: in the way that has been planned
If everything goes as intended, he will graduate this spring.
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PCMAG, 17 Dec. 2024
Pigs might be a solution Doctors announced Tuesday that Looney is doing well and that the kidney seems to be functioning as intended.
—Jen Christensen, CNN, 17 Dec. 2024
If this experiment works as intended, that’s exactly what will happen.
—Nicole Auerbach, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2024
This, too, has been fixed in the new patch, and FSR should work as intended without causing memory leaks.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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“As intended.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/as%20intended. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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