intensive
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If this process sounds complicated and intensive, that’s because it is.
From Slate • Apr. 28, 2026
The evidence points to more intensive farming methods, such as ridge and furrow ploughing to limit erosion and more focused gardening practices.
From Science Daily • Apr. 27, 2026
Since 2012, the facility has been refining pure metals from raw materials mined in Western Australia, in an intensive and complicated separation procedure.
From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026
Then, the summer before her 60th birthday, she participated in an intensive learning experience in Jewish prayer and Torah in Jerusalem and was set off on the path to the clergy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
Inevitably it follows that intensive spraying with powerful chemicals only makes worse the problem it is designed to solve.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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