absolute
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“What an absolute disaster! 20-0!? What an absolute dog … prediction and opinion to have. Have a good time watching football the rest of the weekend … you deserve to eat crow!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
"For me they're an absolute treasure - like an Egyptian artefact... as valuable as that," he added - "and preserving them is a duty to our children and grandchildren".
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
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
“It’s not a 58% reduction in the absolute number of arrests,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Now Percy pulled her close, hugging her tight as they tumbled through absolute darkness.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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
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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