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intensify

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Drama has intensified among the Patrick Henry High School cheerleaders after news spread of their coaches’ firings this week.

The Fed on Wednesday also left its benchmark short-term rate unchanged at nearly zero, where it has been since the pandemic intensified in March.

From Fortune

The public and lawmakers themselves have expressed disappointment in the fact that the legislative session ended without major action on housing and police reform, and the finger-pointing is intensifying one week after the session ended.

The pandemic shut down Fortune’s in-person conference business, but it seems to have intensified demand for it.

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These narratives have been intensified and supplemented by the work of right-wing adversarial media-makers like Elijah Schaffer and Andy Ngo, who collect videos of conflict at public protests and recirculate them to their online audiences.

Even as the ranks of culture warriors on the right diminish, their zeal seems to intensify.

Instead, they intensify with age, like peachberry wine, and occasionally (like Jesse Helms and Jimmy Swaggart) they grow rank.

As fears of the virus hitting Europe intensify, health officials warn that paranoia and racial profiling may grow, as well.

Amin, whom we met in the park, says that his highs tend to extend and intensify whatever he was feeling already.

Droughts and food shocks may intensify political and military conflict: more resource wars, more grain-price revolutions.

The chattering of a few prairie dogs only served to intensify the great, mysterious silence.

Somehow she imagined a contact of lips would intensify that feeling, might bring it nearer consummation.

Don't intensify the viciousness of the public-house by assuming the place isn't fit for women and children.

But the very expression of the unrest tends to intensify its expression and so increases the tension in the herd.

At times her whimsical fancy would intensify natural processes around her till they seemed a part of her own story.

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On this page you'll find 122 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to intensify, such as: add to, aggravate, boost, build up, deepen, and enhance.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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