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
Often protracted and resource-intensive, the process historically excluded all but the most technically adept.
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Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 10 Apr. 2025
Here, the bathing rituals appear even more laborious and time-intensive, but feel less about vanity.
—Anna Haines, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2025
What To Know Russian troops have also moved back toward Ukrainian settlements in Sumy, all the while upping intensive aerial bombardment of border villages.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
This is a bottleneck for graphics-intensive applications, resulting in suboptimal visual quality and lack of visuals required for financial visualizations, such as a display of real-time analytics in charts and graphs.
—Pooja Jain, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
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Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 10 Apr. 2025
Here, the bathing rituals appear even more laborious and time-intensive, but feel less about vanity.
—Anna Haines, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2025
What To Know Russian troops have also moved back toward Ukrainian settlements in Sumy, all the while upping intensive aerial bombardment of border villages.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
This is a bottleneck for graphics-intensive applications, resulting in suboptimal visual quality and lack of visuals required for financial visualizations, such as a display of real-time analytics in charts and graphs.
—Pooja Jain, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intensive
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The missions became more intense as Japan's outlook grew more dire and the military showcased the sacrifice of the pilots to drum up patriotism and support for the war.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2025
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Next, the authors report that repressive techniques are often effective in suppressing protest in the short run but tend to make resistance more intense in the long term.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
10 Apr. 2025
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The documentary follows the story of Ángel, a charismatic boy with fierce love for his Guarani roots and a vision for his Paraguayan hometown of Nanawa.—
Lise Pedersen,
Variety,
11 Apr. 2025
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The Battle of Okinawa lasted 82 days, with fierce fighting on land and sea.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2025
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In other words, if Instagram had even somewhat appeared as a future threat to Facebook or Facebook’s competition, there would have been a ferocious bidding war for Instagram that would have pushed its purchase price far, far above $1 billion.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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There’s scenario No. 1: Either Carter, a ferocious All-American pass rusher, or Hunter, a generational wide receiver-cornerback hybrid, is available, and the Patriots can add a premium talent at a position of need in what can only be described as a front-office dream.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
16 Apr. 2025
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This deeper level of engagement not only informs new office designs but can increases employees’ sense of ownership of it.—
Ryan Anderson,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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That conversation opened up deeper discussions about beauty standards, authenticity, and the pressure women face to conform.—
Liz Krieger,
Allure,
15 Apr. 2025
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Skinner had a terrible time of it for much of the season.—
Allan Mitchell,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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What is disconcerting is when campaign donors and friends & family have commuted sentences after they have been legally convicted of terrible financial crimes.—
Sanjeev Menon,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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“Intensive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intensive. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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