"bent on" meaning in All languages combined

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    {
      "form": "more bent on",
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    },
    {
      "form": "most bent on",
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        "superlative"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        },
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              104,
              111
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          "ref": "2021 August 17, Roger Cohen, “For America, and Afghanistan, the Post-9/11 Era Ends Painfully”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "A colossal bipartisan investment of American force, treasure and diplomacy to defeat a hostile ideology bent on the creation of an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has failed.",
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          "ref": "2025 June 2, Marc Santora, Devon Lum, “In Russia Airfield Attacks, Ukraine Aims for Strategic and Symbolic Blow”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "However, Mr. Ryan and other analysts cautioned that despite the nature of the attacks, they are unlikely to alter the political calculus of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, who remains bent on achieving his war aims.",
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        }
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        "Completely determined; obstinate."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Completely determined; obstinate."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "hell-bent"
        }
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    },
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        },
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      ],
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        ],
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          "obstinate",
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        "(idiomatic) Completely determined; obstinate."
      ],
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