extreme

Readings below 41.5 indicate extreme pessimism, while readings above 62.5 signal excessive optimism.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026

Though it attracted angry and sometimes offensive voices, it was a conventional libertarian-leaning movement, as opposed to an extreme socialist organization.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Instead, he hopes his biking project is showing people what’s possible — in the most extreme way.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

That could make advanced tools less wasteful and more economical while preserving the extreme hardness required for industrial use.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

St. Sebastian had been named the patron saint of athletes and soldiers, because he’d been forced to endure extreme physical trials in his life but was able to heal quickly from his injuries.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles

In the meantime, some aficionados are going to extremes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

He said for a long time governments have resisted building new reservoirs on the basis other solutions could be found, but the recent weather extremes the UK has been experiencing "have really caught people out".

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

Bees can thermoregulate themselves by moving heat around their body while in flight, but extremes of temperature can affect their health.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

Not only does the stock market comprise a greater share of American wealth than ever before, but it has also reached new extremes in terms of heft relative to the broader economy.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 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

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 Williams, C. M.

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 Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Of course control by the workers, as it was first introduced, led speedily to many absurdities and, much to the dissatisfaction of the extremer elements, has been considerably modified.

From Russia in 1919 by Ransome, Arthur

He professed to like my supernatural beliefs much better than the anti-supernatural views of the extremer portion of his brethren.

From Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story by Barker, Joseph

Mr Senior had seen its essential principle, the right of subsistence, worked out farther—to extremer and more dangerous consequences—than perhaps any other political or social experiment, before the practical common sense of England interfered.

From The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 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

In everything, to the extremest point of death itself, he had proved himself a simple, brave, and honest gentleman.

From Maid of the Mist by Oxenham, John