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intensely

adverb

as in hard

with great effort or determination struggled intensely to master the language of her adopted country

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to a great degree the senate race was intensely close

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Recent Examples of intensely Coordinating all of his department heads and units in prep allowed Vanselow to focus more intensely on performance during the actual shoot, which paid off not only in terms of Neeson’s work but that of the supporting cast. — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2026 Zaid’s home is bombed in one intensely melodramatic sequence that culminates in a slow zoom over Zaid cradling his dead wife and child. — Beatrice Loayza, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026 Dreamed up by Emirati chef Maitha Warshaw, the spiced tea is intensely creamy and sweet, and Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan praised its flavor during the train’s inaugural voyage. — Sophia Dyer, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2026 Le is particularly fond of the store’s Thai green bananas, which remain bright green even when fully ripe and develop an intensely sweet flavor. — Sara Rosenthal, Denver Post, 11 Oct. 2026 The city sits amid the rugged Rif Mountains, where cliffs and steep hills descend toward beaches and intensely blue Mediterranean water. — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2026 Kalhammer’s Bowery Nation, which could have given its name to the exhibition, conveys the show’s intensely personal civic pride—its Campanilismo. — J. Hoberman, ARTnews.com, 9 Oct. 2026 With input from Hélène Mercier-Arnault, Bernard Arnault’s concert-pianist wife, the property was intimate, intensely serviced, and conceived as a destination unto itself. — Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2026 For the creators and cast, working on Avatar stories is an intensely personal job. — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026

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And even DeVonta Smith, who made his return from injury Sunday, landed hard in the fourth quarter and appeared to be shaken up.

— Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 18 Oct. 2026
The Capricorn Moon squares the Sun in your sign, making private responsibilities or family dynamics harder to tune out.

— Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of hard

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Some wondered whether Schrödinger’s equation might be an approximation that works extremely well at the microscopic scale but breaks down at the macroscopic scale, which would mean the measurement postulate of the Copenhagen interpretation is right.

— Philipp Strasberg, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
In the meantime, no one should refrain from using sunscreen, which is extremely well-proven to cause cancer.

— Tracy Middleton, Allure, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of extremely

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Newsom, by contrast, may need to begin campaigning intensively after leaving office rather than wait for Harris’s decision.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026
The pork producers group has also intensively lobbied for legislation called the Save Our Bacon Act, which would overturn the state laws.

— Kenny Torrella, Vox, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of intensively

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While these issues can be addressed, the costs can be incredibly high, and under Florida law, developers are only on the hook for anything identified within the first seven years after a building is handed over to the homeowners association.

— Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026
The pre-selection debates about three- or four-loss SEC squads and some team no one actually watches will prove incredibly tiresome, too.

— Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of incredibly

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The group listens intently as a symphony of airplanes, freeway traffic and the ploop!

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
Acuña was tended to for several minutes by the Braves trainer, with Weiss looking on intently, before heading straight to the home clubhouse.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of intently

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One of the other things that Claude noticed was that these array of associated reverse transcriptases seem to be isolated to jumbo phages, which have very large genomes for bacteriophage.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2026
There’s very few cases where a fan actually gets to stand beside the man and add onto the man’s legacy.

— Christine Imarenezor, VIBE.com, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of very

Adverb

Organizations like the American Library Association have diligently kept track of banning efforts.

— Naveen Basavaraj, The Conversation, 5 Oct. 2026
On that day, Skoloda, Pasek, and others had diligently practiced constructing the Norwegian reeve, along with other rigging arrangements.

— Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of diligently

Adverb

Another issue is that AI detectors are still not terribly reliable, which Vara addresses in her piece, citing a number of studies to bolster the credentials of Pangram.

— James Folta, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2026
Probably nothing too terribly bad, especially since Denver has done it without much offensive consistency.

— Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 7 Oct. 2026

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