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Intensified fighting near Myanmar’s border with China has blocked trade routes, causing shortages of food and other necessities and worsening inflation that was already near 30%, the World Bank said in a report Tuesday.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 12, 2023

Intensified speculation the Bank of Japan may be set to tweak its super-easy monetary policy as soon as this month saw the yen lead the way to its best levels since mid-May.

From Reuters • Jul. 14, 2023

Intensified vaccinations were also halted in provinces likely to experience stormy weather.

From Washington Times • Dec. 15, 2021

Intensified through the climate-changing combustion of fossil fuels, wildfire smoke is the not-fully-burned remains of forests and their inhabitants, many of whom will have died of suffocation before being burned.

From Scientific American • Aug. 20, 2021

Intensified food production and societal complexity stimulate each other, by autocatalysis.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond