extreme
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The revision reflects a change in the BOT’s predictions for another inflationary risk: El Nino, the weather phenomenon that causes extreme rainfall and drought.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Rachel was the latest named entrant in this year's unusually active season, weather charged by the recurring El Nino pattern that this time around is particularly extreme.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
During that winter, researchers determined that the more extreme waves were about 50% larger than usual and the level of beach erosion was 76% higher than normal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
The idea was to prevent extreme acidity differences from developing.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
"Gregory's jokes are getting to be way too extreme," George whispered to Nancy.
From "The Cinderella Ballet Mystery: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #4" by Carolyn Keene
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Mr. De los Santos directed with economy and precision, capturing the physical essence of these relationships—as when Macaria and Pina playfully acted out the extremes of telenovela emoting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 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
“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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Hence the extremer Puritans were completely out of touch with the sensuous poetry of Christmas, a festival which, as we shall see, they actually suppressed when they came into power.
From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles
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
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
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 Bret Harte
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
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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While it is easy to acknowledge that the perfect thoroughbred excels all other horses, the fact must also be noted that he is of extremest rarity, and even when found is infrequently up to weight.
From Patroclus and Penelope A Chat in the Saddle by Theodore Ayrault Dodge
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