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intensified her efforts to preserve the town's historic buildings and landmarks
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Recent Examples of intensified
Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
With intensified scrutiny from investors, regulators, and stakeholders, how do organizations prepare for sustainability assurance and build confidence to stand behind their sustainability numbers?
—Jon McGowan, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Patricia Gallagher Newberry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2025
Twenty other areas in Darfur and Kordofan, where fighting has intensified in recent months, are also at risk of famine, according to the IPC.
—NPR, 3 Nov. 2025
And just as Shakespeare relentlessly intensified Lear’s individuality, so did Jobs make each gadget more itself, eschewing generic compromise to magnify exceptionality.
—Big Think, 3 Nov. 2025
Criticism surrounding Andrew intensified in recent weeks after the posthumous memoir of Giuffre, who died by suicide in April at 41.
—Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2025
The United States has intensified its naval presence in the Caribbean, with satellite imagery confirming the deployment of the USS and USS , now stationed within striking distance of Venezuela.
—Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
The 2023 edition opened a month later as Israel intensified its bombing campaign on Gaza, which has since killed more than 67,000 people, injured another 170,000 and razed the Palestinian territory to the ground, prompting accusations of genocide, which Israel has strongly rejected.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2025
Complicating their mission, the government has placed the town under military quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven, forcing her back into hiding.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2025
Even as American political polarization has intensified over the last eight years, both Republicans and Democrats have agreed that an increasingly powerful Beijing poses an economic, technological, and security threat to Washington and its close allies.
—Mira Rapp-Hooper, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
Political scientist Ronald Krebs notes that domestic rights advocates rarely gain lasting momentum from the award, and may even face intensified repression.
—Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
With intensified scrutiny from investors, regulators, and stakeholders, how do organizations prepare for sustainability assurance and build confidence to stand behind their sustainability numbers?
—Jon McGowan, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
The debate in Cincinnati intensified when City Manager Sheryl Long placed Police Chief Teresa Theetge on leave in October and hired a law firm to investigate her job performance.
—Patricia Gallagher Newberry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2025
Twenty other areas in Darfur and Kordofan, where fighting has intensified in recent months, are also at risk of famine, according to the IPC.
—NPR, 3 Nov. 2025
And just as Shakespeare relentlessly intensified Lear’s individuality, so did Jobs make each gadget more itself, eschewing generic compromise to magnify exceptionality.
—Big Think, 3 Nov. 2025
Criticism surrounding Andrew intensified in recent weeks after the posthumous memoir of Giuffre, who died by suicide in April at 41.
—Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE, 3 Nov. 2025
The United States has intensified its naval presence in the Caribbean, with satellite imagery confirming the deployment of the USS and USS , now stationed within striking distance of Venezuela.
—Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
The 2023 edition opened a month later as Israel intensified its bombing campaign on Gaza, which has since killed more than 67,000 people, injured another 170,000 and razed the Palestinian territory to the ground, prompting accusations of genocide, which Israel has strongly rejected.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2025
Complicating their mission, the government has placed the town under military quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven, forcing her back into hiding.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 30 Oct. 2025
Even as American political polarization has intensified over the last eight years, both Republicans and Democrats have agreed that an increasingly powerful Beijing poses an economic, technological, and security threat to Washington and its close allies.
—Mira Rapp-Hooper, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intensified
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The debut sportswear capsule showcases a market-ready alternative for conventional synthetics, offering enhanced comfort, additional performance and functionality as well as end-of-life solutions.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Sourcing Journal,
6 Nov. 2025
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Real estate investment trust Simon has released enhanced plans for Sagefield, a 100-acre luxury mall coming to Thompson's Station in Williamson County next year.—
Gabrielle Chenault,
Nashville Tennessean,
6 Nov. 2025
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The tie-up has further deepened its Houlihan relationship.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
1 Nov. 2025
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Anthropic and Google deepened their cloud partnership last week in a deal worth tens of billions of dollars, while Meta has inked hefty cloud deals with Google and Oracle in recent months.—
Annie Palmer,
CNBC,
30 Oct. 2025
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Every element of this show is equally heightened and untethered from anything resembling reality, and the only actor who rises to meet that moment is Paulson.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
4 Nov. 2025
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Council members call for more transparency Concerns among the community about the bayou deaths heightened when McKissic and others were unexplainably found dead within weeks of each other.—
Dalia Faheid,
CNN Money,
27 Oct. 2025
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Robinson faces a top charge of aggravated murder, which carries the potential death penalty.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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Tyler Robinson, 22, was arrested in connection with the fatal shooting and arraigned on Sept. 16 on seven felony charges, including aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm, obstruction of justice and witness tampering.—
Michelle Del Rey,
USA Today,
14 Oct. 2025
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The storm has strengthened into the equivalent of a Category 4 Hurricane and is expected to hit central Vietnam Thursday night — an area that hasn’t yet recovered from disastrous flash flooding and landslides caused by weeks of record rainfall and successive storms.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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Mexican Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch has said several operations already underway in Michoacán, including arresting those involved in organized crime, would be strengthened.—
Ellie Cook,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Yet even as some states have a lower bar for the ultra-wealthy, wealth itself is becoming more concentrated, leaving most Americans further behind.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
3 Nov. 2025
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Strong winds also are expected to lash the West Coast as an atmospheric river (a corridor of concentrated moisture in the atmosphere, sometimes called a tropical plume) arrives on Friday.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Gas and dust fall into a rotating disk around the black hole, and as the debris spirals more rapidly, it becomes superheated, releasing intense radiation.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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True Ipomea batatas has bright orange flesh (although modern varieties have much more intense colors than older forms), occasionally white and rarely purple.—
Paul Cappiello,
Louisville Courier Journal,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Intensified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intensified. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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