extreme
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Many journalists were especially outraged because of the extreme dangers faced by Mexican reporters, editors, columnists and photographers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
As the idea becomes “cringe,” creators who popularized it could resort to even more extreme behaviors to satisfy the algorithms, Taylor said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
"Understanding how matter organizes itself under extreme quantum conditions gives us new tools for designing and controlling quantum systems. While this is fundamental research, discoveries like this often become the foundation for tomorrow's quantum technologies."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
Moreover, excessive speculation, much of it conducted with extreme leverage, led to violent selloffs during that time.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
Kok, a Dutch businessman of extreme wealth, was president of a Belgium-based banking company, SWIFT, and was responsible for organizing several international tournaments.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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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
As tai chi doesn’t push extremes, it may feel counterintuitive in Western culture; but that’s part of its power, Swanson says, likening tai chi to water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
The tests were designed to verify that the company's sensors remain accurate across the temperature extremes they could encounter during descent to the lunar surface.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
"This is a clear example of how climate change is intensifying heat extremes, with heat and drought increasingly reinforcing one another," said Samantha Burgess from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, which operates Copernicus.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Even José Arcadio Buendía himself considered that Melquíades’ knowledge had reached unbearable extremes, but he felt a healthy excitement when the gypsy explained to him alone the workings of his false teeth.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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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
He was like his father, the old laird, but there glowed an extremer dark anger and power.
From Foes by Mary Johnston
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
As the necessity for severity decreases, severity even in social disapproval must lessen; as the individual comes to yield more readily and promptly to a slight spur, extremer methods will be discarded.
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams
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 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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Nor can she legally, except in the extremest case, throw up her situation, as the stable-boys could, but did not.
From Maid of the Mist by John Oxenham
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