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intensive purposes or intents and purposes?
If you are casting about for the phrase that is used to say that “one thing has the same effect or result as something else,” you are looking for for all intents and purposes; you are not looking for intensive purposes. Your purposes may indeed be intensive in some way (we don’t want to know the details), but these two words are not commonly found together as an idiom. The pairing of intents and purposes comes from a 1546 Act of Parliament conveying that King Henry VIII had unlimited power to interpret laws; it contained the phrase “to all intents, constructions, and purposes.”
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Examples of intensive in a Sentence
Danielle Cohen, Glamour, 3 Apr. 2024
The Wachowskis took influence from Hong Kong’s martial arts movies, which employ wires and pulleys to propel performers, and had their stars undergo months of intensive combat training before the shoot.
—Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Mar. 2024
Those childcare benefits don’t have to be as financially intensive as investing in an on-site facility either.
—Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2024
Christopher Herrick, the state fish and wildlife commissioner, challenged that assertion, describing an intensive process of public engagement used by the board to solicit and consider input.
—Jenna Russell, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024
Meanwhile, rising competition for college admissions encouraged more intensive forms of parenting.
—Jonathan Haidt, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2024
Most studies have considered vaccine skepticism among primarily white and middle-class parents to be an outgrowth of today’s neoliberal parenting and intensive mothering.
—Johanna Richlin, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2024
The intensive process has an impact on both nature and people, with dangerousworking conditions and practices that damage ecosystems.
—Ana De Oliva, CNN, 6 Mar. 2024
In 2022, The Ranch partnered with Palazzo Fiuggi, an idyllic estate and a medical retreat an hour south of Rome, on an intensive seven-day program.
—Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2024
Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 2 Mar. 2024
These programs range in length, price, and style—from intensives at rustic wilderness lodges to luxury wellness resorts with spa amenities.
—Julia Eskins, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2024
Over two weeks, six said creators will participate in workshops and direct meetings with industry leaders to help develop their drama pilots, starting with a three-day intensive that will include honing their pitching skills and learning about FX’s development process.
—Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2023
Prominent studios across the country have risen to meet the demand, offering week-long adult intensives and even performance opportunities.
—Alice Robb, ELLE, 28 Feb. 2023
Their Race2Community program includes a nine-week intensive built to guide white women through deep introspection surrounding their own internalized white supremacy.
—Dana Brownlee, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
To make squat day more glute intensive, try using an exaggerated wide stance.
—Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 19 Oct. 2022
Out of each year’s participants, the program selects 400 enthusiastic, aspiring dancers to join a 10-week intensive at Boston Ballet.
—Karen Campbell, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2022
The ballet has the Otto M. Budig Academy, too, with a schedule of summer intensives.
—David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 24 Mar. 2020
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“Intensive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intensive. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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