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Six example sentences with intensive, each labelled with its topic.
The writing retreat is intensive: ten days, no phones, and a finished short story due at the end of each one.
Literature
Researchers ran an intensive two-week study, testing each volunteer's memory six times a day instead of once a month.
Psychology
Bar candidates sign up for an intensive review course that crams a semester of contracts and torts into eight long days.
Law
The intensive six-week program packs three sessions into most days, and nobody is allowed to skip the recovery walks.
Fitness
The preseason camp is intensive: two practices a day for ten days, with film study filling the evenings.
Basketball
She took an intensive Spanish course before the trip, five hours a day for three weeks, and could order dinner unaided.
Travel
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Found in these word lists
Found in 4 published word lists
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)Authoritative
- New Academic Word List (Browne/Culligan/Phillips 2013)Authoritative
- Science Vocabulary ListAuthoritative
- PrepScholar 357 GRE WordsRecognized
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