as in intense
extreme in degree, power, or effect
Maintaining the house's expansive gardens requires intensive effort.
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Recent Examples of intensive
All three countries are undergoing intensive nuclear modernization, upgrading existing weapons and adding newer ones.
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Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
After intensive practice, the patient was able to move a cursor on a screen—a significant achievement, but a painstaking one.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
The then-12-year-old immediately began an intensive round of treatment.
—Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025
Others will require less intensive forms of care, including financial and social support.
—Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 5 Nov. 2025
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Fan Kelly Terzis described her feelings as intense sadness and grief, but also gratitude.—
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The study made a significant contribution, if not clarification, to this academic niche — medieval migration wasn’t seasonal, nor sporadic and intense.—
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Some nearby residents, including Sue Weston — the owner of Weston Gardens in Bloom, a historic garden located on Anglin Drive — have expressed fierce opposition to the data center.—
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Last year, the governor tried to increase the number of in-office days to four only to face fierce resistance from his employees and their labor representatives.—
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Protecting Rodgers against the Texans’ ferocious pass rush represents a tall task, though.—
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Aside from being a general nuisance with their ferocious snores, pungent odors and growls, bears can do serious damage to a home.—
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This design helps the sensor capture bright highlights and deep shadows in the same frame.—
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This could be easily written off as the financial mismanagement of youth, but taken as a whole, Gen Z’s outlook on the economy is at once a rejection of conventional wisdom and a deep, almost subconscious absorption of the commodification of everything.—
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The groundbreaking research penetrated the last moments of the young nobleman, who suffered a terrible 26 blows.—
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History is full of cases where great bands make terrible records, yet history stands speechless at what the Clash accomplished here.—
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“Intensive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intensive. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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