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These coatings could help prevent tungsten from entering the plasma while reducing heat losses, making it easier to maintain the extreme conditions necessary for fusion.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

Elite marathoners go to extreme lengths to chase top times, shelling out fortunes on fancy coaching and remote altitude camps to gain an edge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

"I'd say don't be a simp," she says, using a term for someone who shows extreme deference to authority figures.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

A warmer atmosphere holds more moisture, allowing rains to turn more extreme.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

“Friends. The life you are training for is one of extreme stress and strain. Friends can help with that.”

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

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

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

Investors seem to be locked in a wrestling match over these extremes, contributing to big swings in bonds last week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 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

We who have no vocation for the extremer ranges of sanctity will surely be let off at the last day if our humility, asceticism, and devoutness prove of a less convulsive sort.

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James

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

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

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

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

Born in extremest poverty, he has struggled upward against the crushing weight of factious systems, to an influential position in society.

From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Henry B. Stanton