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After decades where the dominant expectation for high-achieving parents was to intensively helicopter, a new generation of moms is saying “enough.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

The findings indicate that the advantages of lowering blood pressure more intensively may outweigh concerns about overtreating patients with hypertension.

From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2026

"It is very important that we work intensively with the new Hungarian government," EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said.

From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026

"We have worked intensively in an effort to save both businesses, having made last-ditch attempts to rescue them, but neither has a realistic possibility of trading profitably again."

From BBC • Jan. 5, 2026

My father and I were studying Sanhedrin—slowly, patiently, intensively, not leaving a passage until my father was satisfied that, at least for the present, we understood it fully.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok