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  "id": "really.intensifier",
  "term": "really",
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  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "really",
  "domain": "adverb",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "very real",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "real.actual",
      "just.exact"
    ],
    "interaction": "the real quality together with exactness makes a statement fully true and emphasized",
    "novel_properties": [
      "intensified truth",
      "speaker emphasis"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Large Hadron Collider operates at 1.9 Kelvin, colder than most of space, to maintain superconductivity.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The U.S. Social Security Administration processes 600 million transactions annually to sustain benefit distributions.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Amazon's DynamoDB replicates data across 24 global regions to ensure availability during outages.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
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    "really"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-really.intensifier"
}