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extreme

[ik-streem] / ɪkˈstrim /






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But a subset of early-stage founders is embracing an ethos derived from an extreme reliance on artificial intelligence: Stay small for as long as possible.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 22, 2026

"The stories sound extreme and I worry for my grandchildren. I think everything is out of control."

From BBC Sep. 20, 2026

What remained less clear was whether entanglement could survive under far more extreme conditions, including the violent, high-energy particle collisions produced at CERN.

From Science Daily Sep. 20, 2026

Schulze called that a “tail risk,” or an unlikely outcome that could trigger an extreme market reaction.

From MarketWatch Sep. 20, 2026

This woman told her a story about adopting a child with extreme physical and emotional needs.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles

"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

Such weather extremes may have caused queens to abandon their nests or die, reducing the initial spring queen bounty to a more modest population.

From Science Daily Sep. 11, 2026

The challenge for brands is to acknowledge that development without endorsing the extremes.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

When you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Theosophy in its extremer forms it cannot absorb at all.

From Modern Religious Cults and Movements by Gaius Glenn Atkins

For such persons as Lydia it has added dignity and joy to a woman's life, without the fever and disorganization which attend its extremer forms.

From The Mating of Lydia by Mrs. Humphry Ward

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

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

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

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




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