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For decades, scientists have struggled to understand the potential link between global warming and El Niño — and whether human activity is making the already powerful climate phenomenon even more extreme and disruptive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

But there was no earthquake, exceptional rainfall or sudden period of extreme heat immediately before the collapse, experts said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

The WMO - a UN agency - said it has undertaken a "major mobilisation" to try to circulate its forecasts of potential extreme weather events, linked to El Niño, to as many communities as possible.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Some shipping lines are returning to the Suez Canal as congestion caused by extreme weather limits capacity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

The fact that his suffering has been far less extreme, and has not been linked to a belief in his inherent inferiority, has not made his suffering less real.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

The challenge for brands is to acknowledge that development without endorsing the extremes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Researchers warn this growing "volatility" could make water supplies, agriculture and infrastructure harder to manage as conditions switch rapidly between extremes.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

I just had to turn up the extremes when it came to Agnes, and really make sure to keep those things that she keeps close to her heart guarded.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Fayu bands and modern states represent opposite extremes along the spectrum of human societies.

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

I reply that I took these extremer examples as yielding the profounder information.

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

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

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

The extremer the physical effort, the greater the strain on the inner or moral powers.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Robert Ezra Park

Mr Senior had seen its essential principle, the right of subsistence, worked out farther—to extremer and more dangerous consequences—than perhaps any other political or social experiment, before the practical common sense of England interfered.

From The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 by Various

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

Born in extremest poverty, he has struggled upward against the crushing weight of factious systems, to an influential position in society.

From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Henry B. Stanton