The article examines a set of intensifiers in contemporary academic prose, focusing on their frequency and their tendency to form recurrent pairings with particular adjectives and verbs. Using a freely available corpus of research articles, the study identifies which intensifiers occur most often and how narrowly each one gravitates toward specific collocates. The findings show that a handful of items (“significantly”, “highly”, “particularly”, and “strongly”) account for the majority of occurrences and repeatedly appear in familiar combinations such as “highly significant” and “strongly associated”. These patterns are not evenly distributed but reveal clear preferences tied to quantitative reporting, evaluative commentary, and methodological description. The consistency of these pairings across unrelated fields suggests that they function as established phraseological routines rather than ad hoc choices. The study shows the degree to which academic writing depends on semi-fixed expressions that writers use emphasise key points, indicate how firmly they accept a particular interpretation, and organise the presentation of their results. The study also points to areas where further work would be valuable, including cross-disciplinary variation and the relationship between intensifiers and other stance devices.