extreme
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For Doug, the issue is not only how disabled people cope with extreme weather, but whose experiences are considered when decisions are made about the future.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Metro zooms out to "extreme weather" events impacting people "at home and abroad", carrying the story of "1 million Chinese forced to flee Typhoon Dolphin as Britain braces for yet another 36C heatwave".
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
"We believe this wait-and-see approach has kept TTF prices from reflecting a scenario of extreme gas scarcity during the winter period," said Pinto at Kpler First.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
With more parts of England set to join Wales as being officially declared to be in drought, BBC Verify has been gathering satellite imagery showing the impact of this year's extreme summer heat.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
I was probably going to be the first homesteader ever to die from extreme stupidity.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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Moving toward extremes also has the potential to produce rewards.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
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
Instead of two heavy ends, you’d try to pull a quarter of the money from each of those extremes and ease it toward the middle.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
“Caden,” Carlyle says, looking for a moderate among extremes, “what do you think about what Skye said?”
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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For such persons as Lydia it has added dignity and joy to a woman's life, without the fever and disorganization which attend its extremer forms.
From The Mating of Lydia by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
We still stand on the ground that the English government is founded in usurpation, but we can dispose of all objections by proving the extremer case.
From Principles of Freedom by MacSwiney, Terence J. (Terence Joseph)
Like them, his revolt against Romanism took an extremer form than Lutheranism, and after a temporary residence in Switzerland and at Strassburg, he arrived in England soon after Elizabeth's accession.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
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
She had addressed the president, partly from his office, his comparatively extreme age—he must have been at least thirty!—and possibly for his extremer good looks.
From Openings in the Old Trail by Harte, Bret
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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These are not the extremest instances that Fletcher's letters afford of his habit of "spiritualising."
From Fletcher of Madeley by Macdonald, Frederic W.
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