intensify
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In practical terms, this can intensify the electric field inside the material and slow light down, squeezing electromagnetic energy into a very small volume and boosting light-matter interactions.
From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026
On Wall Street, chatter about a summer “melt-up” has started to intensify.
From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026
By ramping up its rhetoric, is Russia also about to intensify its war?
From BBC • May 26, 2026
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen something intensify this quickly,” Gregory Ferenstein, who conducted a recent poll with researchers at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, said of the backlash.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
If anything, the NACA’s response to Sputnik would only intensify the process of change, as the herculean task of safely navigating the heavens was divided into myriad smaller tasks, tests, parts, and people.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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