intensification

Example Sentences

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During expansions or intensifications of capitalism, many rural women lost access to land and, along with it, the economic and social power they had previously enjoyed.

From Scientific American • May 31, 2023

“It has a human fingerprint on it,” said Kossin, who with Vecchi was part of a 2019 study on recent rapid intensifications.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 28, 2021

My feelings toward Istvan were complicated, contradictory and subject to sudden mutations, intensifications and reversals.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2017

Curious, too, are the intensifications of foot-consciousness throughout the early years of childhood, whenever children have the exceptional privilege of going barefoot, or have new shoes.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy by Ellis, Havelock

The first intimations of their lack of identity have already been described, but it would be tedious and pitiful to tell of all the little intensifications, shade by shade, of the conflict of their individualities.

From Love and Mr. Lewisham by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)