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The phrase "aimed to hit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an intention or goal to achieve a specific target or outcome.
Example: "The archer aimed to hit the bullseye during the competition."
Alternatives: "intended to strike" or "sought to reach".
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Such guns could be aimed to hit at ranges as great as 20,000 yards.
"Those pitches," Martínez said, "weren't really aimed to hit Soriano with any intention.
The previous government aimed to hit a rate of 240,000 net new dwellings a year by 2016, but then revised it downward.
In Japan, Toyota's 1999 Will car aimed to "hit a funky groove," according to its ads and be "a place to hang out".
EMC, which finished 2000 with a burst that lifted its sales to $8.9 billion, aimed to hit $12 billion this year.
The publisher had aimed to hit paid sales of 200,000, and made promises to advertisers to sell ads at that rate of sales or offer money back, but instead saw its popularity immediately sink to about 30,000 copies per day.
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It means aiming to hit middle and leg rather than off stump.
It said it aims to hit monthly positive operating profit and cashflow by the end of 2018.
The latest bill passing through Congress aims to hit the industry for the cost of bail-outs, for example.
But aiming to hit a batter, especially to strike a player on the head, crosses the line and under baseball rules can get a pitcher ejected.
Sandia, which does research for the Department of Energy in Albuquerque, is aiming to hit 100 trillion operations a second with Red Storm.
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