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
It added that doctors had made "enormous and intensive" efforts to save his life.
From Barron's • May 31, 2026
Traditional desalination methods such as reverse osmosis and thermal distillation can be expensive and energy intensive.
From Science Daily • May 31, 2026
A few days ago, I put one of my college-age children on a plane to Berlin, on the way to a month-long theater intensive.
From Salon • May 31, 2026
The Maya, packed by the millions into land poorly suited to intensive farming, were dangerously close to surpassing the capacity of their ecosystems.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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