absolute
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Maybe it’s not just that he envies their absolute power on the home front or their unabashedly lavish palaces.
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2026
“There is a good deal of comfort that, even when the market is done, these absolute yields are something to lock in.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
The PM said the government's commitment to defence was "absolute" and he would set a target date to reach the 3% figure in the spring.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
"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
To use an Americanism, he had “taken no chances,” and the absolute accuracy with which his instructions were fulfilled, was simply the logical result of his care.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
It resonates in part because pregnant women are routinely handed absolutes with little explanation and expected to comply, so permission to have a little leeway is a welcome relief.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026
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
All of us, when it comes to personality, naturally think in terms of absolutes: that a person is a certain way or is not a certain way.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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