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That inevitably reignites debate around extreme weight cutting, but there is also a more immediate sporting concern.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

As Esteller described it, her biology showed a "fascinating duality: the simultaneous presence of signals of extreme aging and of healthy longevity."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

But while “traumas” does seem extreme, it’s striking how many of the accounts he has gathered seem like a wounded soul’s quest for escape.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Perhaps their focus on health contributes to the generation being less inclined to suffer through such extreme conditions.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

Just in time, however, for as the rocks clashed together again the extreme end of the stern ornament was shorn off.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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 implications for people are immense because El Nino is a major source of climate extremes and hazards."

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

Studies show that when you put all three together, he noted, the extremes tend to soften.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

"I maintain, violence is not the answer to these problems of race and discrimination. We must foster dialogue between the black and white extremes."

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon

In other respects anarchism may be said to be but an extremer phase of socialism.

From Contemporary Socialism by John Rae

She had addressed the president, partly from his office, his comparatively extreme age—he must have been at least thirty!—and possibly for his extremer good looks.

From Openings in the Old Trail by Bret Harte

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 Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

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 Clement A. Miles

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 C. M. Williams

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

My purse, my person, my extremest means Lye all unlocked to your occasion.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall