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Instead, he went to truck driving school and later went into gang intervention work, following in the footsteps of other men and women who lived through the extreme violence of the 1980s and 1990s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Ash Dykes, 35, from Old Colwyn, Conwy, holds five world records but his most recent quest was the first of six back-to-back expeditions he will take on in extreme environments.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Donald Kohn, a former Fed vice chairman, said he has little patience for one extreme, where officials become overly precise in outlining at which meetings they expect to change rates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Scientists have developed and tested the first three-dimensional thermal invisibility cloak, a device that can conceal objects from infrared cameras while protecting them from extreme temperatures.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

Ken understood that no level of preparation could eliminate the risk of an operation under such extreme conditions.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

Higher prices caused by weather extremes are getting “more frequent … and extreme,” said Barchart’s Newsom.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

The plaintiffs say they have suffered losses amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars from wildfires, flooding and other weather extremes and are seeking compensation.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

"She went to the extremes, really, to get the feeling and the emotion I went through and the struggle."

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Investors seem to be locked in a wrestling match over these extremes, contributing to big swings in bonds last week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

In order to answer this question, we shall now compare three regions that lie at opposite extremes among centers of independent domestication.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Like them, his revolt against Romanism took an extremer form than Lutheranism, and after a temporary residence in Switzerland and at Strassburg, he arrived in England soon after Elizabeth's accession.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

But even the French Revolution had its humors; and as the English Puritan Revolution gathered head and the extremer sectaries pressed to the front—Quakers, New Lights, Fifth Monarchy Men, Ranters, etc.,—its grotesque sides came uppermost.

From From Chaucer to Tennyson by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

Mr Senior had seen its essential principle, the right of subsistence, worked out farther—to extremer and more dangerous consequences—than perhaps any other political or social experiment, before the practical common sense of England interfered.

From The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 by Various

It has as yet been practised by no poet at all approaching the first class, except Verlaine, and not by him in its extremer forms.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various

Hence the extremer Puritans were completely out of touch with the sensuous poetry of Christmas, a festival which, as we shall see, they actually suppressed when they came into power.

From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles

The printing press, praised by Martin Luther as “God’s highest and extremest act of Grace,” led to the Reformation, the Counter-Reformation — and a century of bloody religious wars.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2016

Now even the extremest obscenities have lost their power to shock.

From The Guardian ● May 23, 2013

The President-elect said he hoped the ceremony would be "one of the extremest in simplicity that we have ever had."

From Time Magazine Archive

“There will never be such a thing in my house,” said Wang Lung, in extremest horror.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

"Well, if this doesn't beat all for luck!" said he in a tone of the extremest gratification, his visible features wreathed in an unctuous smile.

From The White Blackbird by Hudson Douglas