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That interaction point moves slightly sideways, a finding that could matter for quantum computers that use laser light to control qubits with extreme precision.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

France has been one of Europe's worst-hit countries during this year's extreme weather, sparking huge wildfires.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Over the past two decades, extreme wildfires have surged by 120% globally, while extreme floods have risen by 134%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

“I just don’t think the experience is worth having to survive a week of whiteouts and extreme mud if it rains,” she added.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

St. Sebastian had been named the patron saint of athletes and soldiers, because he’d been forced to endure extreme physical trials in his life but was able to heal quickly from his injuries.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles

"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

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

"The implications for people are immense because El Nino is a major source of climate extremes and hazards."

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

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

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

And nowhere else have people living at such heights—in places where most crops won’t grow, earthquakes and landslides are frequent, and extremes of weather are the norm—repeatedly created technically advanced, long-lasting civilizations.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

It has as yet been practised by no poet at all approaching the first class, except Verlaine, and not by him in its extremer forms.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various

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

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 Brief History of English and American Literature by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

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

From Contemporary Socialism by John Rae

It is a mistake to take the extremer forms of this reaction too seriously, although at the present time this is very frequently done.

From Among Famous Books by John Kelman

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

The Duke was obviously in a state of the extremest nervous tension.

From Amusement Only by Richard Marsh