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as in hard
with great effort or determination
struggled intensely to master the language of her adopted country
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as in extremely
to a great degree
the senate race was intensely close
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Recent Examples of intensely
Many are intensely private, so part of the heritage director’s role is to cultivate mutually beneficial relationships.
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Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2025
At the same time, Always Greener is an intensely personal project.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
Born in Mozambique and based in Lisbon, Mariza is the reigning vocal queen of fado, the intensely dramatic Portuguese music style that is synonymous with her name.
—Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2025
With gruff vocals, intensely honest lyrics and compositions that range from messy alt-rock to grungy folk, Maeson's album, and captivating live show, brings listeners into his head and home.
—Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 4 Nov. 2025
And as the play proceeds, those characters commit, ever more intensely, to their peculiarities.
—Big Think, 3 Nov. 2025
But Feinberg is also intensely skeptical of some of the startups’ promises.
—Ben Smith, semafor.com, 3 Nov. 2025
Then something shifts, and the movie unleashes a gauntlet of sadistic violence that's very effective at making the same viewers who found these characters intensely annoying a few scenes ago feel guilty for ever hating them.
—Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
Mulroney’s team was intensely aware of the electoral risks associated with free trade.
—Dónal Gill, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2025
At the same time, Always Greener is an intensely personal project.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
Born in Mozambique and based in Lisbon, Mariza is the reigning vocal queen of fado, the intensely dramatic Portuguese music style that is synonymous with her name.
—Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2025
With gruff vocals, intensely honest lyrics and compositions that range from messy alt-rock to grungy folk, Maeson's album, and captivating live show, brings listeners into his head and home.
—Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 4 Nov. 2025
And as the play proceeds, those characters commit, ever more intensely, to their peculiarities.
—Big Think, 3 Nov. 2025
But Feinberg is also intensely skeptical of some of the startups’ promises.
—Ben Smith, semafor.com, 3 Nov. 2025
Then something shifts, and the movie unleashes a gauntlet of sadistic violence that's very effective at making the same viewers who found these characters intensely annoying a few scenes ago feel guilty for ever hating them.
—Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
Mulroney’s team was intensely aware of the electoral risks associated with free trade.
—Dónal Gill, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intensely
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That can take nefarious forms, such as hypothetically hard-coding cheaper ticket prices into the site that are hidden to human users but visible to AI bots, making the platform seem like a more affordable option to the computer model.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
10 Nov. 2025
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The show’s second season, based on Mona Kasten’s book Save You, follows the first installment, which found James Beaufort (Damien Hardung) and Ruby Bell (Harriet Herbig-Matten) go from enemies to lovers as the both worked hard to get into Oxford.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
10 Nov. 2025
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In extremely dense fog where visibility is near zero, the best course of action is to first turn on your hazard lights, then simply pull into a safe location such as a parking lot of a local business, and stop.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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Nineteenth-century reporters could be extremely casual with facts and guessed at the spelling of names.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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And managers are reluctant to crack down too intensively.—
Peter Bart,
Deadline,
23 Oct. 2025
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Leyla’s was a Frenchman, an art collector twice her age, who picked her up in one of Moscow’s posh night clubs and began to educate her intensively.—
Julia Ioffe,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2025
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Flares such as this one reveal the presence of incredibly large stars near the hearts of galaxies and shed light on the very structure of galaxies, Ford said.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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Over the last 10 years the floor on theatrical performance has dropped out, so distributors need to be incredibly careful about project selection and assumptions at acquisition stage.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
6 Nov. 2025
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Not content to knock you down by rearranging her songwriting with radically different parts and references than querer or Motomami dared, Rosalía works every bit as intently with shock and humor.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
7 Nov. 2025
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Though the talk was of the details of a life, the shadow that hung above our conversation, as one had hung above that life, was intently political.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
30 Oct. 2025
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Many others were very angry about it.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
11 Nov. 2025
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And Doughty, who turns 36 in December and is still the runaway leader in ice time for the Kings, continues to be viewed in a very positive light by Team Canada’s decision-makers.—
Chris Johnston,
New York Times,
10 Nov. 2025
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The top four appropriators, Cole, Collins, House ranking member Rosa DeLauro (D-MA), and Senate ranking member Patty Murray (D-WA), have to diligently work together in an effort to achieve the tough process of passing 12 appropriations bills across the floor of both chambers.—
Rachel Schilke,
The Washington Examiner,
23 Oct. 2025
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While many companies initially invested diligently in their AI teams and development, the technology has sometimes led to those exact roles being deemed unnecessary.—
Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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With its frozen setting, enigmatic characters, and haunting tone, Let The Right One In is, at its core, a twisted and terribly sad love story — as all the best vampire movies are.—
Katie Rife,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Oct. 2025
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Something went terribly wrong in the flavor-infusion process.—
Jolene Thym,
Mercury News,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Intensely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intensely. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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