absolute
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"It's just an absolute nightmare down there," healthcare worker Josie Donoghue said of Gatwick after leaving the airport, having had to disembark her flight to Ireland after three hours stuck on the runway.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
The experiment was carried out at Ben-Gurion University using clouds of rubidium atoms cooled to temperatures just above absolute zero.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
His last words of the night are “I did my absolute best for y’all, I swear.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
A wrinkle: On an absolute scale, it is still easier to find a job with a college degree.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
The absolute pitch-black darkness, though, was a bit surprising.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
No doubt, but as we have seen with the handball law if you add more absolutes that simply results in more disallowed goals.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025
Johnson told Barron’s that the projected percentage increases represent ranges rather than absolutes, and that individual payouts would depend on the company and the employee’s performance.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2025
Venable treats even his most culpable characters as human beings — perhaps the play’s boldest move in an age of moral absolutes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025
"They are not designed to be absolutes," he said.
From Reuters ● Oct. 2, 2023
But she also understood that sometimes the world was just a little bit more complicated and grown folks liked to operate in absolutes.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
Vocabulary lists containing absolute
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 6
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The New SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, "A Date That Will Live In Infamy" (1941)
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