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"I miss Catherine tremendously. She'd think I'm an absolute lunatic, but she was always a big part of it and I think she'd be really proud."

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

At temperatures approaching absolute zero, a small crack that might ordinarily be accommodated by the metal changing shape can instead spread and cause a fracture.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

That left an absolute majority out of reach for either Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or his rival Gadi Eisenkot, a former military chief.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

By coincidence, the terminal value after 10 years for someone picking the absolute worst moment to invest was almost exactly one-tenth the terminal value for the person who picked the best moment.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

I know no medium: I never in my life have known any medium in my dealings with positive, hard characters, antagonistic to my own, between absolute submission and determined revolt.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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