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“All of us recognize the need to take extreme action and soon on trying to rebuild Los Angeles as the film capital of the world,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Romanticizing extreme thinness contributes to eating disorders, which can do serious damage to the health of sufferers.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

"We have decided to call off all games on August 5-6 until comprehensive safety measures are established," the KBO said in a statement, citing risks to players and fans as extreme temperatures persist.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

"Determined to reach the United Kingdom, migrants crossing the Channel in small boats refused assistance offered by French emergency service, accepting it only in situations of extreme emergency," it said in a statement.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

Given the extreme weather conditions that constantly plague the area around where both the Erebus and the Terror lie, excavating the wrecks present an enormous challenge.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

In the meantime, some aficionados are going to extremes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

"We have already endured a summer of extremes -- record-shattering heat domes; apocalyptic wildfires raging in Spain, France and far beyond; thousands of lives lost in the scorching conditions," said Guterres.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

Bees can thermoregulate themselves by moving heat around their body while in flight, but extremes of temperature can affect their health.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

A weaker AMOC, he argues, could sharpen the temperature contrast between northern and southern Europe - one of the gradients that helps drive storms and other extremes.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

In order to answer this question, we shall now compare three regions that lie at opposite extremes among centers of independent domestication.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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 Saintsbury, George

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 Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

He was like his father, the old laird, but there glowed an extremer dark anger and power.

From Foes by Johnston, Mary

Of course control by the workers, as it was first introduced, led speedily to many absurdities and, much to the dissatisfaction of the extremer elements, has been considerably modified.

From Russia in 1919 by Ransome, Arthur

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

From Contemporary Socialism by Rae, John

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

Gentlemen, It is currently reported that you are in the extremest anxiety respecting your standing with the good people of this Town and Province, as commissioners of the sale of the monopolized and dutied tea.

From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.