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extremes

NOUN
extremity
Synonyms
STRONGEST
terminus
STRONG
acme acuteness adversity apex apogee border bound boundary brim brink butt climax consummation crisis depth disaster edge end excess extreme frontier height last margin maximum nadir outside pinnacle plight pole remote rim setback terminal termination tip top trouble verge vertex zenith
WEAK
dire straits
Antonyms
STRONG
aid base beginning blessing boon bottom center commencement good fortune good luck help inside interior middle minimum nadir opening peace prosperity start success

Example Sentences

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Other times, adolescents and teens are taking healthy things, such as working out or eating protein, to extremes.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

Rockefeller just took it to extremes, so that all the workers were his people.

From Barron's • May 2, 2026

Also read: The ‘meme stock’ craze is getting close to post-tariff-announcement extremes, according to JPMorgan.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 23, 2026

Pangram’s latest version now outputs scores on a continuum and is making genuine progress on these gray-zone instances, but those cases remain far less validated than the extremes.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 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