- present participle of intensify.
intensifying
Example Sentences
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Intensifying competition in lending and deteriorating credit quality are concerns, they add.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026
Intensifying competition, shifting capital flows, changing alliances, and rising hostilities between superpowers were perverting typical economic and market behaviors.
From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026
Intensifying ICE presence in the Imperial Valley has hindered the efforts of outreach organizations to help the unhoused population, a group especially vulnerable to the area’s high temperatures.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2025
Intensifying competition from Chinese automakers is also a worry for Western executives.
From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2024
Intensifying cultural methods but intensifies the digestion, assimilation and exhaustion of the surface soil, from which life springs.
From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by King, F. H. (Franklin Hiram)