extreme

It may be a more extreme example, but many find themselves in this position.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

“At the other extreme, people do have the right to expect that a journalist’s byline means that he or she actually composed the words that follow.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

“I feel like it’s genre-defying and can appeal to fans of atmospheric stuff and extreme metal, and anyone who likes aggressive music or even just guitar rock.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Call it the extreme version of “Pay yourself first.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

The lady returns and keeps talking at us, louder and louder as if that will help us understand better, about extreme carefulness.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads

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

Such weather extremes may have caused queens to abandon their nests or die, reducing the initial spring queen bounty to a more modest population.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

Researchers warn this growing "volatility" could make water supplies, agriculture and infrastructure harder to manage as conditions switch rapidly between extremes.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

“Caden,” Carlyle says, looking for a moderate among extremes, “what do you think about what Skye said?”

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

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

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

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

She had addressed the president, partly from his office, his comparatively extreme age—he must have been at least thirty!—and possibly for his extremer good looks.

From Openings in the Old Trail by Bret Harte

In other respects anarchism may be said to be but an extremer phase of socialism.

From Contemporary Socialism by John Rae

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

One line is quoted in which the tendency probably reached the extremest limits it ever did in any Latin author,— Nerei repandirostrum incurvicervicum pecus.

From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar