absolute
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“I appreciate their trust in me, and I have an absolute blast doing it every single week. And I cannot wait to continue to do it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Inside the U.A.E., a federation of monarchies governed largely by absolute rulers, Nusseibeh is known as one of a handful of technocrats who drive the country’s policies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Sir Chris has suggested the absolute deadline for reaching a deal is January because at that point the money available to departments to spend under emergency arrangements will run out.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
She said if Stormont is serious about Bengoa's report and improving the health care system they "must enshrine this absolute right in law" for patients to designate an essential family carer.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
Say you are trying to cool a banana to absolute zero.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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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
Mozeliak didn’t rule himself out as the long-term answer at general manager and was emphatic about not speaking in absolutes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 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
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
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Vocabulary lists containing absolute
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 6
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, "A Date That Will Live In Infamy" (1941)
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