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extreme

adjective as in very great

adjective as in faraway

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The co-founder also stressed that most of Public’s users find its service organically, implying that the startup’s marketing costs have not been extreme, nor its growth artificially boosted.

The Crosby-Malkin Penguins do have a history of extreme late-season surges.

In extreme cases, you can end up with a single person shouldering the burden of many hands — very unfair.

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I think that the problem is that in some cases, not in those extreme cases, there’s speech that one person might say is legitimate and should be up, but others say it should be taken down.

Mars is substantially more complicated, with an atmosphere that distributes heat and makes the temperature extremes far more moderate, plus orbital wobbles that ensure seasonal changes in temperature.

Investigators will focus on whether the sudden emergency was so extreme that no degree of pilot skill would have helped.

He was part of an extreme, racialized white faction in the Louisiana state house that was clearly dead-set against honoring King.

In the most extreme cases, it allows for the extrajudicial killing of black people without consequence.

Nor should we ever assume that weather alone, however extreme, should be fatal to a commercial flight.

No one likes it when their sandcastle is knocked over, but his reaction is a bit, err, extreme.

Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.

The controlling center of consciousness is the extreme limit of the nares anteri.

As a rule, however, even in the case of extreme varieties, a careful examination of the specimen will enable it to be identified.

Nothing but an extreme love of truth could have hindered me from concealing this part of my story.

It stands at one extreme of our currency, with a dollar of gold set aside behind each dollar of paper.

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On this page you'll find 262 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to extreme, such as: acute, intense, severe, utmost, high, and maximum.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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