extreme
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El Nino is associated with higher global temperatures, and a stronger cycle intensifies the extreme weather patterns it brings to different regions, like drought or heavy rain.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
Wieland’s case is an extreme example of a new reality in the U.K.:
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Meanwhile, Network Rail has acknowledged a squeezed budget means difficult choices, and shoring up the network against the effects of more extreme weather requires investment.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Currently, the most extreme high tides are occurring between 10 and 11 a.m., with milder secondary high tides between 11 p.m. and midnight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 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
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Now, researchers have identified something that falls between those two extremes.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 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
Ayer pushes the emotional and physical extremes and it feels like a dirge: a forced march through the muddy Alaskan wilderness with plenty of body horror on top.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
In the weeks and months that followed the Diallo shooting, for example, as the case made headlines around the world, the argument over what happened that night veered back and forth between two extremes.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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
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
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 Terence J. (Terence Joseph) MacSwiney
A sharp check from the public authority generally brings out to the front this extremer element in German socialism.
From Contemporary Socialism by John Rae
He was like his father, the old laird, but there glowed an extremer dark anger and power.
From Foes by Mary Johnston
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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Thence the Sibyl to the plain's extremest boundary led him, Where world-fam'd warriors, a lionlike company, haunted.
From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Robert Bridges
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