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Wasps are thought to be quite resilient to extreme weather.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

On Sunday OpenAI's chief scientist said the risk from increasingly capable AI models is "unfortunately growing" and humanity must proceed with "extreme caution".

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

But while “traumas” does seem extreme, it’s striking how many of the accounts he has gathered seem like a wounded soul’s quest for escape.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Perhaps their focus on health contributes to the generation being less inclined to suffer through such extreme conditions.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

This tremor was more extreme, caused by something bigger than a strange stampede.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

"Denise's entire life revolved between the two extremes of courage and suffering," Luigi Ciotti, president of Libera wrote, calling that a difficult balance.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

Studies show that when you put all three together, he noted, the extremes tend to soften.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 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

Fayu bands and modern states represent opposite extremes along the spectrum of human societies.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

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

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 From Chaucer to Tennyson by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

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

Theosophy in its extremer forms it cannot absorb at all.

From Modern Religious Cults and Movements by Gaius Glenn Atkins

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 soil of the forest is always moist, except in the extremest droughts, and it is exceedingly rare that a primitive wood suffers from want of humidity.

From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh