absolute
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In that group, women treated with beta blockers had a 2.7 percent higher absolute risk of mortality during 3.7 years of follow-up compared with women who were not treated with beta blockers.
From Science Daily • May 25, 2026
“The safety and security, and well-being of evacuated residents and the surrounding communities remain our absolute highest priority.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026
"We hope people bear them in mind because it's the absolute least they deserve."
From BBC • May 22, 2026
Candy Buckley and Derek Smith are veteran New York stage actors worth seeking out in anything, and they are an absolute delight here, each playing several roles with ferocious zest.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
Here’s what’s so hard for us to understand today: The ruthless, paranoid Josef Stalin, by then the uncontested leader of the USSR, commanded a bizarre and absolute power over his people.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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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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