intensifies

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If anything, it intensifies it by removing the practical friction that once constrained broad searches.

From Slate • May 20, 2026

Impact Europe imports far less crude through Hormuz than Asia does, but it faces higher costs as competition intensifies for available barrels.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

Since 2000, the Colorado has shrunk dramatically as climate change intensifies dry conditions in the Rocky Mountains.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

The repeated use of gold imagery only intensifies those concerns because of the symbolism gold carries historically and biblically: kingship, permanence, divinity and power.

From Salon • May 10, 2026

“Measuring tape and thermometer,” he told himself, “chalk for an outline; perhaps the cold intensifies at night? Everything is worse,” he said, looking at Eleanor, “if you think something is looking at you.”

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson