adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an intense gaze (= when someone looks at someone or something with concentration )
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His intense gaze never left Delaney.
close/intense scrutiny (= very careful scrutiny )
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Both these areas of law have come under close scrutiny by the courts.
enormous/intense interest (= very great )
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This tournament has created enormous interest.
fierce/intense loyalty
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She was touched by her friend's fierce loyalty.
fierce/intense/stiff opposition (= strong opposition )
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It is certain that there will be fierce opposition to the changes.
great/intense curiosity
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His disappearance had obviously aroused great curiosity.
intense concentration (= very great concentration )
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The job demands intense concentration.
intense debate (= in which people put forward strong and different arguments )
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The future of the nuclear industry has been a matter of intense debate.
intense excitement (= a very strong feeling of excitement )
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I can still remember the intense excitement of going to see my first football match.
intense rivalry
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There has always been intense rivalry between New Zealand and Australia.
intense speculation
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The reason for his resignation was the subject of intense speculation.
intense (= done with a lot of effort )
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The agreement came after months of intense negotiations.
intense/acute/violent etc dislike (= very strong dislike )
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His colleagues regarded him with intense dislike.
intense/severe nausea
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The woman suffered from severe nausea and vomiting.
passionate/intense/deep/bitter hatred (= hatred that is felt very strongly )
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What, I wondered, had I done to provoke such deep hatred?
severe/intense
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Ever since the accident, Mike’s suffered from severe back pain.
stiff//tough/fierce/intense/keen competition (= strong competition )
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There is stiff competition for places at the best universities.
strong/intense pressure
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There was strong pressure for a statement from the President.
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There was a strong feeling of anger among the workers.
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Issues such as abortion arouse strong emotions.
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The emotion was so intense that she spent most of the movie in tears.
the intense/extreme heat
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She was in need of a cooling drink in the intense heat.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
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He replies: It's as intense as you want it to be.
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While former executives say the rivalries remained as intense as ever, some joint programs were put in place.
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The excitement of a group of horses galloping together with hounds at heel would be just as intense .
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They are as intense a documentation of passion as I have ever seen in my life.
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The internecine struggles over budgeting between the services is as intense as the battles between defence and social welfare programmes.
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There is a tendency for illnesses to become more prolonged, less intense and for the recovery to be slower.
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Lockhart said preparation for the debate will be less intense than it was for the candidates' first meeting.
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A floodlight will give a wider, less intense , cone-shaped light.
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But it should be noted that the more successful these bands became, the more mellow and less intense their music got.
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They can be more or less intense .
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Identification includes much less intense and less exclusive attitudes.
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Real love is calmer and less intense and more universal.
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Staining was optimal after 18-24 hours of fixation, but less intense after more than 48 hours of fixation.
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The was particularly marked among former scheme port operators, where 67 percent reported more intense competition.
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In the two decades since, those negative feelings have grown even more intense and widespread.
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But the sun has now become more intense .
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This is far more intense a challenge than contributing to debates about strategy and design.
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The emotion felt, although heavily qualified, can be equally or even more intense , as for all second-order experiencing.
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But does this necessarily imply more intense faith?
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Everything was more intense , not just his emotions.
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Dawson had been nursing a grudge even more intense than that of the others.
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Light is most intense along the central axis of each fan.
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Often we produce just the opposite, because the affluent become the most intense users of the service.
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Perhaps armies are the most intense evocation of this state of mind.
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Traditional psychodynamic individual work is perhaps the most intense way to excise emotional malignancies that are getting in your way at work.
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But not even Barnes could break down a Springbok side able to absorb the most intense pressure and punish every error.
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As Reed suggests, the noisiest, most intense minorities can become a sort of visible public opinion.
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Perhaps the most intense of my health service battles of the mid-1980s was over the selected list of drugs.
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White said this has been his most intense camp, and that there are fewer worries entering the season.
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As spawning time approaches, the need for species identification becomes particularly intense .
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Nor did he invent that particularly intense expression of yearning called speaking in tongues.
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But at the present time the pressures seem to be particularly intense .
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The field at these sites is particularly intense , as if the magnetic flux lines have been tied into tight bundles.
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Closed systems are a particularly intense variety of coevolution.
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Competition is particularly intense where supply and demand are quite unequal.
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Not surprisingly this retentiveness suggests a further conclusion-that the Dubya campaign really is driven by a particularly intense dynastic dynamic.
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Migraines are a particularly intense kind of vascular headache.
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The pain in the region of her heart was so intense that she wrapped her arms around herself involuntarily.
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I think he was so intense because he was the only black platoon leader in our battalion.
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It was so intense and we were both so strung up, uneasy about it.
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Many said demand was so intense that they could find no stocks to buy.
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No one could find out why this apparently healthy young woman suffered symptoms which were so intense and yet so varied.
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He was so intense he could be intimidating at first.
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An endless falling through time and space, and ecstasy so intense that she thought she would die.
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And the engine heat was so intense we had to change the oil constantly, arid replace blown-out gaskets.
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Evening is a good time for friendships and romance, but do not be too intense .
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She was too intense , he said.
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Some found the conflict too intense and retired back to the closet, perhaps for ever.
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Everything was too crazy, too intense .
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I think her face is too intense for some one of her age.
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It was too intense a time.
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The plays they put on present stereotypes and are too intense .
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He's still very intense about the art, still loves his cricket with a passion.
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It can become very intense when we visit actual caves.
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Barnes is a very intense young man, in spite of his cheeky-chappy outward look.
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There are a lot of feelings you go through that are very intense .
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It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say I lived for that owl during that very intense period of training.
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He was very intense and very quiet at that time.
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The human relationships are very intense and therefore the learning curve is accelerated.
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And when the lights go on, McCoy is a very intense player.
■ NOUN
activity
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During the late 1970s the Sun went through a period of intense activity on its surface.
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The boundaries of these plates are zones of intense activity .
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There are, however, often specific periods of, usually, intense activity , followed by periods of inactivity.
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A letdown was to be expected after the intense activities of high holy days.
competition
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The was particularly marked among former scheme port operators, where 67 percent reported more intense competition .
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Of course, there is intense competition among the London brokerage houses to signal their bids as fast as possible.
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Obviously there is intense competition from banks and building societies. 5.
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Adequate though not ideal for earlier times, they are thoroughly unsatisfactory in an era of intense competition .
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In reality, the females are locked in fierce and intense competition .
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To listen to Paul you would think there was an intense competition for class speaking time.
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Between 200 and 300 new commercial stations could come on air in the 1990s and intense competition for advertising revenue is inevitable.
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There was intense competition among companies to travel with Brown on his overseas trips, which frequently generated major deals.
concentration
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Since her words didn't appear to be an invitation to food, he returned his intense concentration to the man.
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Steam-power meant a new and intense concentration of large-scale industry and of the labour force to man it.
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He had a look of intense concentration for several seconds.
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The alert, attentive mind, the intense concentration needed, is very demanding.
debate
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The Thatcher government's policy, effected in the Broadcasting Act of 1990, provoked intense debate .
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His approach has incited even more intense debate among Democrats.
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These have been the subject of intense debate , with religious preferences sometimes intruding.
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Yellowstone was threatened in 1883-4 by a plan to allow mining, but the park was saved after an intense debate .
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The implications of this change have been the subject of intense debate since 1978.
dislike
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Second, he shows an intense dislike of his new position, and a continuing desire to resign.
heat
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Three police officers who tried to save the children were beaten back by the intense heat and smoke.
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Only exceptionally cloudy, boggy areas might survive the intense heat radiation from the reentering debris.
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One of the friends, Manuel Cabrera, said he tried to grab Jamie but the intense heat drove him out.
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All the surrounding countryside, scorched by the intense heat , is now in flames.
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Conditions have been made worse by intense heat and the continuing drought.
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Every tree was scorched or charred by a brief exposure to extremely intense heat .
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Over the next four months, the weather veered from intense heat to snowstorms.
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All archaebacteria thrive in intense heat , and most derive their energy from breaking chemical bonds.
interest
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Most of the men preferred to avoid her glance, either gazing round the room or studying their shoes with intense interest .
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The scarcity of housing here is mostly the result of the intense interest and enormous purchasing power of international buyers.
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A new, exclusive product has shaken the climbing world and is attracting intense interest .
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Few singers command such intense interest .
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Both the council and the police were aware of the intense interest in the case.
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In October, Castro visited New York and received intense interest from the media and the business community.
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But such intense interest can work to the carer's advantage too.
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They all expected each member of the staff to express - discreetly - particular and intense interest in their child.
opposition
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This provoked intense opposition , not least from her own family, in a militantly Hindu city like Kumbbakoman.
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Still the plan met intense opposition .
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Even in its planning stages there was intense opposition to the series.
pain
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Or when George's toe struck a stone, giving him intense pain which he could hardly contain soundlessly.
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The minute the sour flavor exploded in his mouth, slivers of intense pain filled his head.
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Epicurus had a mundane philosophy yet despite suffering intense pain of the intestines, he enjoyed a blissful last day on earth.
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A great longing to see his father's face had swept over him, filling him with a sudden, intense pain .
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The tissue contains soluble proteins that cause intense pain and swelling, but which are rarely lethal to man.
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What she has known most intimately these last years has been intense pain .
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He'd suffered intense pain before his death.
pressure
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But not even Barnes could break down a Springbok side able to absorb the most intense pressure and punish every error.
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Despite intense pressure and great temptation, they entered no wars.
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Fleischmann and Pons believed that they had stumbled on another way - intense pressures provided by the natural make-up of solid palladium.
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Rovers began to tire under intense pressure from the St Helens pack.
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The Army and the police remained under intense pressure in the Jaffna peninsula where many camps and stations were under siege.
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Following the disappointing returns in the World Cup, Richardson and his players had been under intense pressure .
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Inside the embassy, conditions were said to be worse that ever, with intense pressure on sanitary facilities.
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Reading cracked under intense pressure again after 69 minutes.
rivalry
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The County Championship was a big meeting in those days, with intense rivalry between west and north London.
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An intense rivalry was to be renewed between Carl Lewis and Ben Johnson in the short sprint.
scrutiny
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Far from privileging authorial discourse, such writing submits the figure of the author and his/her subjectivity to intense scrutiny .
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Ventresca was under intense scrutiny regarding his qualifications for the job.
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His intense scrutiny took in the shadowy and empty lengths of the corridor.
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It's been a tough and bruising campaign, with the backgrounds of both candidates coming under intense scrutiny .
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Mr Barry has been under intense scrutiny ever since.
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All forms of regulation have come under intense scrutiny in recent years.
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Without being aware of it she sighed, and became the subject of Niall's intense scrutiny .
speculation
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The reasoning behind the unpopular and disastrous resignation immediately became the subject of intense speculation .
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How much money Simpson has is a matter of intense speculation and debate.
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Outside Whitehall there was now intense speculation about what was to happen.
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The brewing group has been the subject of intense speculation for decades.
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Yet it is worth remembering that they were fuelled by intense speculation about her marriage.
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The commencement of the trial ended a period of intense speculation that Barry would reach a plea bargain with the federal authorities.
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Against her will Polly had found herself curious about the subject of such intense speculation .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an intense conversation
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As we waited for the winner to be announced, the excitement was intense .
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Every car was stopped and searched, which caused intense annoyance to the drivers.
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He's a little too intense for me.
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It would give me intense pleasure to beat him at tennis.
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Some of these young people are under intense pressure to succeed.
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Very intense exercise may actually be bad for you.