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extreme

[ik-streem] / ɪkˈstrim /






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But Japan embarked much earlier on the extreme monetary and fiscal policies that became common elsewhere after 2008.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

Kudler says the isolation of being aboard a ship, with moments of prolonged boredom followed by "extreme alertness", can amplify mental-health struggles.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

If the interpretation is confirmed, the result could help physicists test how established theories of quantum physics behave under some of the most extreme conditions found anywhere in the universe.

From Science Daily Aug. 18, 2026

Sonders: What they consistently get wrong is greed and panic, the classic extreme emotions.

From MarketWatch Aug. 17, 2026

The lady returns and keeps talking at us, louder and louder as if that will help us understand better, about extreme carefulness.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads

"Anyone who chooses to put themselves into the extremes of nature like this is a hero in my eyes," she said.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

I just had to turn up the extremes when it came to Agnes, and really make sure to keep those things that she keeps close to her heart guarded.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 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

"El Nino may influence tropical cyclone activity in the Central and East Pacific and could alter the risk of floods, wildfires, and other weather extremes elsewhere," it said.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

Growing up in Baton Rouge, it was a crowded house, full of clamor and extremes.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

It is a mistake to take the extremer forms of this reaction too seriously, although at the present time this is very frequently done.

From Among Famous Books by John Kelman

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

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

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

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

“There will never be such a thing in my house,” said Wang Lung, in extremest horror.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

The furrow runs up to the extremest point of a vast field without hedges.

From Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Charles Knight




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