intensive
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The region's intensive care units were "saturated," he warned.
From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026
In the capital, the transport authority admitted that the batteries on the city's new electric buses are running out before the end of the drivers' shifts because of more intensive use of air conditioning.
From Barron's • Jun. 23, 2026
He was an intensive user of the Fed’s workhorse economic simulations even though he frequently trashed the models when staffers included the results in briefing materials.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026
The effects were strongest for the most intensive connections.
From Salon • Jun. 20, 2026
Those yields in turn supported intensive pig production.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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