intensive
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It added that doctors had made "enormous and intensive" efforts to save his life.
From Barron's • May 31, 2026
Traditional desalination methods such as reverse osmosis and thermal distillation can be expensive and energy intensive.
From Science Daily • May 31, 2026
A few days ago, I put one of my college-age children on a plane to Berlin, on the way to a month-long theater intensive.
From Salon • May 31, 2026
Still in her hospital bed, connected to feeding tubes and life support, Hollie is the first patient to try out the new intensive care rooftop ward at King's College Hospital in south London.
From BBC • May 29, 2026
Briefly, at high population densities only a portion of the people came to be farmers, but they were mobilized to devote themselves to intensive food production, thereby yielding surpluses to feed nonproducers.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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