intensify
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Appeared in the March 6, 2026, print edition as 'Large-Scale Attacks Intensify Tensions in Middle East'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
“Even if we don’t find the love of my life alive, they have to be found, please. Intensify these searches.”
From Seattle Times • Jun. 8, 2022
Intensify the work of a Trilateral Contact Group including representatives of Russia, Ukraine and the OSCE.
From Reuters • Dec. 6, 2021
Intensify animal instinct ever so much, and you have not reached the plane of reason.
From Ways of Nature by Burroughs, John
Intensify my desire for the songs and glorious ways, that I may not settle into dullness and slumber, while others pass on in the light.
From Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration by Steinmetz, Margaret Bird
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Power Suffix: -fy
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