intensively

adverb

as in hard
with great effort or determination labored intensively in order to get the film ready for its premiere

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Recent Examples of intensively Claude cannot have or raise kids—intensively or otherwise—or possess any insight into yours or mine, or know what your kid wants for dinner. — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 16 July 2026 The lower mowing ranges are commonly used for recreational turf areas that are more intensively managed. — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 25 June 2026 One big concern is that screens are intensively stimulating for young people because they are held up close and engage young viewers with things such as fast cuts and colors. — CNN Money, 4 June 2026 By the end of the seventeenth century, sassafras had become one of the primary exports of the early English colony of Jamestown, and the aromatic bark was harvested intensively for shipment to European markets. — Kari Traylor, JSTOR Daily, 30 Apr. 2026 Armed with subpoenas, the Secret Service and other agencies are intensively focusing on what might have caused the suspect to book a room at the Washington Hilton, less than two miles north of the White House, on the night of the annual dinner. — Michael Collins, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2026 Artemis’ crew trained intensively with geologists and other scientists to be on the lookout for more prospective landing sites for future missions, craters and just interesting events or features. — Jennifer Levasseur, The Conversation, 11 Apr. 2026 Perhaps 20 or more people work intensively with little direction. — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 29 Mar. 2026 There are many good reasons to intensively treat high blood pressure, but the benefits accumulate over many years. — Mara Gordon, NPR, 17 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for intensively
  1. hard
  2. intensely
  3. diligently
  4. intently
  5. continuously
  6. arduously
  7. assiduously
  8. strenuously
Adverb
  • So why is the industry leaning on this argument so hard right now?
    — Carrie McCabe, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
  • Dubai has been working hard to reconstruct its tourism brand since Iran launched strikes across the Middle East earlier this year, with ballistic missile and drone attacks targeting the destination.
    — Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN Money, 28 July 2026
Definition of hard
Adverb
  • One person is responsible for several interdependent functions, while the consequences of error are intensely personal.
    — Kristin Vance Richards, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • On April 4 they were told to go to a house in unincorporated Miami-Dade, northwest of Cutler Bay, where they were again intensely beaten to the point where one of the victims was bleeding, investigators say.
    — Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 29 July 2026
Definition of intensely
Adverb
  • The BestReviews Testing Lab worked diligently to prove every claim that Rowenta makes about its product.
    — BestReviews, Mercury News, 21 July 2026
  • Beehiiv has worked diligently to build a broader suite of tools that will help its creators do everything from building website to selling products and services that range from eBooks to coaching to hosting podcasts, among other activities.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 16 July 2026
Definition of diligently
Adverb
  • Burke appeared to show no visible emotion and stared intently at each photograph, continuing to look at them as they were displayed in the courtorom, PEOPLE previously reported.
    — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 22 July 2026
  • The footage shows the four royals intently following the final moments of the match and then bursting into a jubilant round of applause at the final whistle, hugging one another to celebrate the achievement of the team.
    — Stefania Conrieri, Vanity Fair, 15 July 2026
Definition of intently
Adverb
  • Organizations create long-term resilience by connecting hiring, learning, leadership development, internal mobility and knowledge sharing into a system that continuously creates, renews and retains organizational capability.
    — Sheila Callaham, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • Built to autonomously monitor industrial sites, campuses, and other large facilities, the robot navigates preset routes while balancing on a single wide wheel and continuously scanning its surroundings.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 29 July 2026
Definition of continuously
Adverb
  • After an arduously long winter, these narrow, modestly sized shops have been—with a suddenness and intensity that only TikTok and Instagram can foment—thronged.
    — David Kamp, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • The team sequenced the DNA of 38 different mosquitoes belonging to 11 species within the Leucosphyrus group, which had been arduously collected during fieldwork between 1992 and 2020 across Southeast Asia.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 11 Mar. 2026
Definition of arduously
Adverb
  • The Austrian Alpine Club bills itself as the country’s largest youth organization, with more than seven hundred thousand members—close to a tenth of the population—assiduously steered toward skiing, hiking, camping, climbing.
    — William Finnegan, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • Zoo officials said Happy was assiduously cared for and had space for swimming, foraging and other natural behavior.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 27 May 2026
Definition of assiduously
Adverb
  • In an interview with CNN last week, the female staffer strenuously denied this.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 July 2026
  • The company, which strenuously denies the allegations, is part of a sprawling, loosely regulated industry of GLP-1 telehealth companies that experts say has been boosted by Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly.
    — Elaine Chen, STAT, 20 July 2026
Definition of strenuously

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