extreme
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Bachteler recalls a day in May when her parents flew over from the US and she had to leave a restaurant because of extreme dizziness.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
As Esteller described it, her biology showed a "fascinating duality: the simultaneous presence of signals of extreme aging and of healthy longevity."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 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
Her children came to regard her as “an extreme fatalist,” who calmly looked peril in the eye.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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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
Such weather extremes may have caused queens to abandon their nests or die, reducing the initial spring queen bounty to a more modest population.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Studies show that when you put all three together, he noted, the extremes tend to soften.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
But protests in Vietnam have rarely, if ever, reached such fierce extremes.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 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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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 Mrs. Humphry Ward
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
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
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
In other respects anarchism may be said to be but an extremer phase of socialism.
From Contemporary Socialism by John Rae
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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They spent the night there in extremest misery, sodden through and through, chilled to the bone, faint with hunger.
From White Fire by John Oxenham
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