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extreme

[ik-streem] / ɪkˈstrim /






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Its highly irregular shape and extreme proximity to Mars make interpreting its gravity and internal structure especially challenging.

From Science Daily Sep. 19, 2026

Richards said prison sentences would only apply "in the most extreme cases" and would be up to judges' discretion.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2026

To keep the results relevant, they excluded pharma and biotech where drug approval headlines can have extreme results.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

Berkshire, a conglomerate of high-quality businesses with a strong balance sheet, has outperformed dramatically during periods of extreme market stress.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

“But, Alexandra, I’ll be fine in a few weeks. In fact, this all seems a little extreme to me.”

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

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

The nearly weeklong event takes place on a sun-blasted, nearly six-square-mile patch of a 200-mile Pleistocene-era lakebed in Nevada, and is a place of extremes, with very cold nights and hot days.

From Salon Sep. 11, 2026

The tests were designed to verify that the company's sensors remain accurate across the temperature extremes they could encounter during descent to the lunar surface.

From Science Daily Aug. 11, 2026

"El Nino may influence tropical cyclone activity in the Central and East Pacific and could alter the risk of floods, wildfires, and other weather extremes elsewhere," it said.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

I’m sleeping in Etienne’s room now—“hiding in plain sight” taken to extremes.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

We still stand on the ground that the English government is founded in usurpation, but we can dispose of all objections by proving the extremer case.

From Principles of Freedom by Terence J. (Terence Joseph) MacSwiney

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

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

Why, with such a quick, analytical brain as his, he might have carried on Darwin's researches to an extremer point of the origination of species than has yet been reached!

From Ardath by Marie Corelli

Theosophy in its extremer forms it cannot absorb at all.

From Modern Religious Cults and Movements by Gaius Glenn Atkins

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

Some new means of supply must be discovered, and the extremest extension of ecclesiastical centralization and papal absolutism has always been recognised at Rome as the most productive source of revenue.

From Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von D?llinger




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