extreme
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Even where rainfall was nearer to average, the rain did not fall continuously as is typical during the monsoon, instead flipping between long dry spells and extreme rainfall.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
By examining these objects, researchers can test how clouds form, how heat moves through an atmosphere, and how atmospheric circulation behaves under extreme conditions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
Sport student Redi Taku told AFP the move was indeed extreme "considering that there are minors aged 16 to 17 among the protesters".
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
Firefighters are bracing for another day of Santa Ana winds and extreme temperatures as they continue to battle a blaze that destroyed six homes in south Orange County.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Valley began to write numbers on the side of the map, her tongue sticking out slightly, her brow furrowed in a show of extreme concentration.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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Now, researchers have identified something that falls between those two extremes.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
Mr. De los Santos directed with economy and precision, capturing the physical essence of these relationships—as when Macaria and Pina playfully acted out the extremes of telenovela emoting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 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
"She went to the extremes, really, to get the feeling and the emotion I went through and the struggle."
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
I tell myself that the guys being wowed and the girls being revolted is better than the other way around, but both extremes are a little much.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
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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 Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
O hapless race! what still extremer woe Doth Fortune doom the living to bemoan?
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor
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
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
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 Arthur Ransome
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
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“There will never be such a thing in my house,” said Wang Lung, in extremest horror.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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With my limited means, I am under the extremest burdens from my endeavors on the former occasion.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 3 by Willis Fletcher Johnson
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