intensive
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But after not hearing from her for two days, dad Nic frantically rang around hostels where she had been staying, before locating her in the intensive care unit of a Goa hospital.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
Chief Financial Officer Marie Myers said that HPE is seeing an influx of demand for server space to support agentic AI tools, which require more complex and intensive computational workloads.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
It added that doctors had made "enormous and intensive" efforts to save his life.
From Barron's • May 31, 2026
Most apes devoted a large share of their grooming time to a small number of preferred partners while maintaining less intensive relationships with many others.
From Science Daily • May 31, 2026
Thanks to this availability of suitable wild mammals and plants, early peoples of the Fertile Crescent could quickly assemble a potent and balanced biological package for intensive food production.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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