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An extreme heat warning was in place for the high desert, with temperatures potentially reaching 112 degrees in the Antelope Valley and 120 in the Mojave Desert.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

“Hot and unstable conditions will result in an enhanced risk of large vertical plume growth, increasing the risk of extreme fire behavior for interior areas.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

She knew from within how such groups operate amid extreme danger.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

At those extreme levels, vitamin C starts to behave differently inside the body.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026

“I was fighting an extreme case of powerlessness.”

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

Moving toward extremes also has the potential to produce rewards.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

In the meantime, some aficionados are going to extremes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

"We have already endured a summer of extremes -- record-shattering heat domes; apocalyptic wildfires raging in Spain, France and far beyond; thousands of lives lost in the scorching conditions," said Guterres.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

Instead of two heavy ends, you’d try to pull a quarter of the money from each of those extremes and ease it toward the middle.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

Furthermore, since perceptions tend to become realities, the natural tendency of the mass media to accentuate the anomalous, combined with an innumerate society’s taste for such extremes, could conceivably have quite dire consequences.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

I reply that I took these extremer examples as yielding the profounder information.

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

The extremer the physical effort, the greater the strain on the inner or moral powers.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra

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

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 Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

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 Miles, Clement A.

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

These are not the extremest instances that Fletcher's letters afford of his habit of "spiritualising."

From Fletcher of Madeley by Macdonald, Frederic W.