extreme
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Instead, he hopes his biking project is showing people what’s possible — in the most extreme way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
These might sound like extreme measures just to prevent a common nuisance.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
Over the past two decades, numerous studies have documented a rise in both extreme wet spells and prolonged dry periods across East Africa, external.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
The HNNSI’s recent drop of 84.4 percentage points was more extreme than in 79% of those prior cases.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
By now both were in extreme old age.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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The capital was under a "severe heatwave warning" Tuesday for the first time since the new category was introduced this year to alert citizens to increasing extremes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
In the meantime, some aficionados are going to extremes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 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
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
Even José Arcadio Buendía himself considered that Melquíades’ knowledge had reached unbearable extremes, but he felt a healthy excitement when the gypsy explained to him alone the workings of his false teeth.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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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 Taylor, Edward Fairfax
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 James, William
Theosophy in its extremer forms it cannot absorb at all.
From Modern Religious Cults and Movements by Atkins, Gaius Glenn
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.
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
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
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“There will never be such a thing in my house,” said Wang Lung, in extremest horror.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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"Well, if this doesn't beat all for luck!" said he in a tone of the extremest gratification, his visible features wreathed in an unctuous smile.
From The White Blackbird by Douglas, Hudson
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