Synonyms for bent on
bent on

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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"

   Antonyms:
   irresolute

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1. Naval Operations John Richardson:

   Our competitors are moving quickly, and our adversaries are bent on leaving us swirling in their wake.

2. Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer:

   It's clear Senator McConnell is hell-bent on making it much more difficult to get witnesses and documents and intent on rushing the trial through.

3. 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?

4. Bobby Wilson:

   [She] was hell-bent on killing me in my sleep one night. At three o’clock in the morning, I woke up to find a rifle in my face— a semiautomatic rifle at that — and the bullets started to fly, and I started diving for cover.

5. Jalel Harchaoui:

   Libya is a corrupt, fractured environment that offers many rewards to actors bent on evading political compromise and using brute force instead, others will feel excluded and tempted to conduct attacks and grab territory.