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muriel_volestrangler

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34. No, it is a normal word

Reply to calimary (Reply #7)

Thu May 1, 2025, 04:12 AM

May 2025

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intently
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/intently
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/intently
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/intently

It's about as common as "intensely" now, but only in the pas couple of decades:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=intently%2Cintensely&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3

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