extremes
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
"El Nino may influence tropical cyclone activity in the Central and East Pacific and could alter the risk of floods, wildfires, and other weather extremes elsewhere," it said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
The answer is always somewhere between the two extremes, and the balance between the two has to be struck afresh with each new topic.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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