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extreme

[ik-streem] / ɪkˈstrim /






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Even where rainfall was nearer to average, the rain did not fall continuously as is typical during the monsoon, instead flipping between long dry spells and extreme rainfall.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Some think this is so extreme it is a bubble in earnings, the E part of the PE ratio.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Its atmosphere contains enormous cloud systems that evolve rapidly, making its weather more comparable to an extreme version of Jupiter's than anything experienced on Earth.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

Sport student Redi Taku told AFP the move was indeed extreme "considering that there are minors aged 16 to 17 among the protesters".

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

“I can never think of it,” she cried, “without extreme shame.”

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

Now, researchers have identified something that falls between those two extremes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

This may seem to be uncomfortably topical in an era when the divide between extremes of poverty and wealth are much noted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 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

OpenAI's agents seem to feature quite prominently in the current roll call of AI products taking their remits to extremes.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

She was accustomed to the kind of fiery preaching that the church offered, the extremes of showmanship and drama, but one day, she thought, they crossed a line.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

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

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

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

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

The extremer the physical effort, the greater the strain on the inner or moral powers.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Robert Ezra Park

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

They spent the night there in extremest misery, sodden through and through, chilled to the bone, faint with hunger.

From White Fire by John Oxenham


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