intensive
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He is still in intensive care but is improving, according to the WHO.
From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026
Crockway Farms Ltd, an intensive pig farm in Dorchester, failed to obtain an environmental permit before it installed two new slurry stores.
From BBC • May 5, 2026
One passenger is in intensive care in Johannesburg and two others "require urgent medical care", the statement said.
From Barron's • May 4, 2026
Born Li Lianjie in Beijing, he was singled out in school at 8 years old for intensive martial arts training.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
In their subsistence modes, Polynesians ranged from the hunter-gatherers of the Chathams, through slash-and-burn farmers, to practitioners of intensive food production living at some of the highest population densities of any human societies.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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