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An extreme marine heat wave and a strong El Niño have pushed Southern California water temperatures closer to those of the turtles’ typical nesting grounds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

But this season is an extreme example of what NBA wonks term “heliocentrism”—an entire offense orbiting its brightest star.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

"It was a toxic term about extreme competitiveness, the urge to dominate. People then started to use it ironically and teasingly."

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

I think that in subtle ways, we’re seeing a shift in how American voters of all stations along the political spectrum are perceiving the extreme income inequality we live under and reassessing what it means.

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026

Mr. Rochester’s extreme pallor had disappeared, and he looked once more firm and stern.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 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

"Denise's entire life revolved between the two extremes of courage and suffering," Luigi Ciotti, president of Libera wrote, calling that a difficult balance.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 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

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

We who have no vocation for the extremer ranges of sanctity will surely be let off at the last day if our humility, asceticism, and devoutness prove of a less convulsive sort.

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James

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 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

Like them, his revolt against Romanism took an extremer form than Lutheranism, and after a temporary residence in Switzerland and at Strassburg, he arrived in England soon after Elizabeth's accession.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

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

It was an old woman with features of the extremest ugliness, which struck the eye the more because they were set off, in a singular manner, against a scarlet boddice covered with gold lace.

From Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck by Ludwig Tieck