extreme
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“We’re living with more extreme droughts and floods, and a growing need to store water during wet periods. Sites is built for exactly that,” Board Chair E. Joaquin Esquivel said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
At the extreme, there is even buzz that the Treasury moves to eliminate 20-year bond auctions entirely, Stanley said.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
Lagarde called for Europe to better prepare for more frequent bouts of extreme weather, praising new rules unveiled by the European Union last week to force member states to act.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026
Bowel cancer can also cause anaemia, the features of which include extreme tiredness and shortness of breath.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
But as the days turned into weeks, into months, into years, the day-in, day-out smells, sights, and sounds that accompany extreme congestion crowded the minds of the people, leaving room for little else.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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Higher prices caused by weather extremes are getting “more frequent … and extreme,” said Barchart’s Newsom.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
Now, researchers have identified something that falls between those two extremes.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
The plaintiffs say they have suffered losses amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars from wildfires, flooding and other weather extremes and are seeking compensation.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
"She went to the extremes, really, to get the feeling and the emotion I went through and the struggle."
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
I am composed of strong metal, am continuously conscious, and can stand extremes of environment easily.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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It is a mistake to take the extremer forms of this reaction too seriously, although at the present time this is very frequently done.
From Among Famous Books by John Kelman
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
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 Edward Fairfax Taylor
I reply that I took these extremer examples as yielding the profounder information.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James
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 Joseph Barker
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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Defoe says he received no pension, but his subsequent fidelity was at all events indirectly rewarded; moreover, Harley’s moderation in a time of the extremest party-insanity was no little recommendation to Defoe.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
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