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extreme

[ik-streem] / ɪkˈstrim /






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There is a more extreme suggestion - cutting back on the best-of-five sets format at the Slams.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

Judge Dafna Spiro said his behaviour was "extreme and horrific".

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

New research suggests that human activity is making El Niño even more extreme and globally disruptive.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 10, 2026

But because of this El Nino's extreme strength -- with near-record ocean temperatures already seen in the tropical Pacific -- it could even push 2026 past 2024 as the hottest year on record.

From Barron's Sep. 9, 2026

This tremor was more extreme, caused by something bigger than a strange stampede.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

Studies show that when you put all three together, he noted, the extremes tend to soften.

From Slate Aug. 26, 2026

The challenge for brands is to acknowledge that development without endorsing the extremes.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

I just had to turn up the extremes when it came to Agnes, and really make sure to keep those things that she keeps close to her heart guarded.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

"This is a clear example of how climate change is intensifying heat extremes, with heat and drought increasingly reinforcing one another," said Samantha Burgess from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, which operates Copernicus.

From Barron's Aug. 10, 2026

By now she was reverting to mean, mad Miss Katastrophe and our minds were at polar extremes.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd

He professed to like my supernatural beliefs much better than the anti-supernatural views of the extremer portion of his brethren.

From Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story by Joseph Barker

A prominent King's man, nay, a Queen's man, which was held to be something extremer, he played, however, an individual part in the struggle.

From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by Anne MacDonell

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

He seems also to have been, as some others of the extremer Puritans certainly were, pretty loose in his construction of moral laws.

From The English Novel by George Saintsbury

O hapless race! what still extremer woe Doth Fortune doom the living to bemoan?

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor

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

The extremest contrasts, the greatest forte and the finest piano, are given factors determined by the individual piano, by the player's skill of touch, and by the acoustic properties of the hall.

From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Josef Hofmann




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