intense
She is enjoying the course intensely.
They were intensely loyal to the president.
He is an intensely private, withdrawn man.
The itching can be intensely painful.
The star is intensely hot.
He defended her intensely to her critics.

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intensely | American Dictionary

intensely
adverb
us/ɪnˈtens·li/
in a strong or extreme way, or in a way that shows a lot of effort:
intensely personal songs
He lives every aspect of life intensely.

Examples of intensely

intensely
They were also the two most intensely experienced symptoms, with the most extreme category reported by over one quarter of respondents.
Small drought events would lead to nothing more than the population having to forage more intensely, while the resource base recovered.
On the one hand, she shows the value of practitioner research for understanding the complex, intensely interpersonal emotional issues related to racism.
An intensely debated question is whether prefibrillar aggregates (oligomers, protofibrils) or fibrils are responsible for the underlying cytotoxicity in protein-misfolding diseases.
Note that some far apart locations "communicate" much more intensely than some neighboring sites.
It is long, it is dense and intensely argued, and it covers an impressive scope from fourteenth-century scholarship to present day debates.
The results showed that the glycocalyx was intensely stained by the first two dyes, thus indicating the presence of relatively high amounts of negative charges.
Close to the injection sites cells were intensely labeled, while towards the periphery of the patch the label gradually faded away.
The ideological context around any discussion of race was, as all readers know, intensely fraught.
These texts become part of the 'performances of the day,' deployed moment-to-moment in multiple contexts of use, by often intensely disaffected young people.
An important aspect of our studies was the intensely supportive family and school environment of these children.
The area occupied by the nucleus was excluded, as it was less intensely stained than the cytoplasm.
They also stained more intensely for myelin basic protein, implying that greater myelin content made the columns visible in dark field.
Much of his analysis then depends on how intensely and how widely it is thus disliked.
The use of nicknames puts them on the same social level, thereby creating an intensely friendly atmosphere.
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