absolute
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Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo now hold absolute power over the country.
From BBC • May 31, 2026
Most require temperatures near absolute zero, about -459 degrees Fahrenheit, to maintain the fragile quantum states needed for computation and communication.
From Science Daily • May 30, 2026
“That was an absolute disaster and yet we remember D-day as one of the great military triumphs in history,” Haig says.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
Mock said it is “the absolute least they can give.”
From Slate • May 28, 2026
For a brief moment, Duane experienced absolute silence, which was peaceful but also dreadful, because that was the moment that he and the toboggan, so far above the ground below, finally stopped.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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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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