as in hard
with great effort or determination
intently studied his notes just before the exam
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Recent Examples of intently
The Reluctant Traveler, listening intently as the heir to the throne opens up like never before.
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Erin Hill, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
The pet cam showed Rio laying on the floor, directly in front of the television, watching it intently.
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Oct. 2025
Safety Kevin Byard, who had two interceptions off Raiders quarterback Geno Smith, watched intently.
—Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
Paul Patterson, an analyst who covers utilities for Glenrock Associates, a research firm in New York City, said Sempra’s deal with KKR and its decision to focus more intently on the utility sector makes sense.
—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025
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Erin Hill, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
The pet cam showed Rio laying on the floor, directly in front of the television, watching it intently.
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Oct. 2025
Safety Kevin Byard, who had two interceptions off Raiders quarterback Geno Smith, watched intently.
—Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
Paul Patterson, an analyst who covers utilities for Glenrock Associates, a research firm in New York City, said Sempra’s deal with KKR and its decision to focus more intently on the utility sector makes sense.
—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intently
Adverb
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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
Adverb
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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
Adverb
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Many are intensely private, so part of the heritage director’s role is to cultivate mutually beneficial relationships.—
Paige Reddinger,
Robb Report,
8 Nov. 2025
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At the same time, Always Greener is an intensely personal project.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
5 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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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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Such fallacies are utterly unacceptable anywhere…The Chinese military will continue to take necessary measures to resolutely safeguard national sovereignty and security, and firmly uphold regional peace and stability.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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The Post has resolutely revealed such entanglements to readers of news coverage or commentary in the past, whether the Graham family's holdings, which included the Stanley Kaplan educational company and Slate magazine, or, since 2013, those of Bezos, who founded Amazon and Blue Origin.—
David Folkenflik,
NPR,
28 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Since its debut, the initiative has been quietly but determinedly building physical bases in Lagos and Kenya, creating tangible spaces where female artists, producers, and engineers can access resources that Tems herself had to fight to find.—
Kimberly Wilson,
Essence,
4 Nov. 2025
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For long-haul trips, consider the Southern Hemisphere for a jolt of vitamin D in a rugged, determinedly uncommercial spot, or take a dip in a memorable, albeit temporary, Japanese onsen.—
Mark Ellwood,
AFAR Media,
20 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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The Pan American Health Organization determined that measles has circulated continuously in parts of Canada for at least 12 months, the threshold for losing elimination status.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Nov. 2025
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This article is being continuously updated.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
10 Nov. 2025
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For a series about misfit intelligence operatives doggedly refusing to live up to even the lowest level of their potential, Apple TV’s Slow Horses is remarkably self-actualized.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Oct. 2025
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The novelist Adam Johnson is not a writer of that doggedly persistent kind.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Intently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intently. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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