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extreme

[ik-streem] / ɪkˈstrim /






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In the weeks since, Kay said she has continued to suffer health problems, including extreme fatigue.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

In Seward, fishermen are not necessarily calling for that extreme.

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026

El Niño causes extreme weather around the globe, bringing hurricanes, flooding and drought.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

Published in Science Advances, the findings suggest that Earth's atmosphere may play a much greater role in determining the severity of extreme geomagnetic storms than scientists previously recognized.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026

The extreme light/dark contrasts throughout the painting imply the alternating emotions of hope and hopelessness.

From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 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

At Mennour, Dhewadi Hadjab captures the extremes of the body in motion through his highly realistic paintings that depict amateur dancers in mind-bending contortions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

When you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

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

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

For such persons as Lydia it has added dignity and joy to a woman's life, without the fever and disorganization which attend its extremer forms.

From The Mating of Lydia by Mrs. Humphry Ward

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

Mrs. Shelley was the extremest reverse of this.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall


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