intensive

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Since 2012, the facility has been refining pure metals from raw materials mined in Western Australia, in an intensive and complicated separation procedure.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

Before his passing, Alan used a wheelchair and spent a week in intensive care before returning to his Lehi, Utah, home on Thursday.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026

On her third visit, as Crain’s condition deteriorated, a doctor did not send Crain to the intensive care unit until he could confirm fetal demise with two ultrasounds.

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2026

For example, acute myeloid leukemia—the disease that afflicted Kennedy family member Tatiana Schlossberg before she died in December—remains among the hardest to cure, frequently recurring despite intensive chemotherapy and transplantation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026

The adoption of intensive food production from the Asian mainland was also very slow and piecemeal in Japan, probably because the hunter-gatherer lifestyle based on seafood and local plants was so productive there.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond