absolute
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"The Agency is committed to ensuring that those entrusted with our Nation's secrets are held to the absolute highest standard."
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
While having a power of attorney designated for a person who is suffering cognitive decline is an absolute necessity, having them declared incompetent by a court is not.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
One wouldn’t call him a charming personality, but he is compelling in his absolute confidence in himself and his ideas.
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2026
Metallica’s always been more existential than topical, but haven’t we all scrolled our feeds recently and muttered - “Darkness imprisoning me / All that I see, absolute horror.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
On the other hand, Kelvin’s discovery of absolute zero told physicists what they couldn’t do.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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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