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Researchers in Tristan Wagner's laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen wanted to understand how this organism performs nitrogen fixation under such extreme conditions.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

Richards said prison sentences would only apply "in the most extreme cases" and would be up to judges' discretion.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

Though endurance athletes—from Olympians to amateur runners—are highly susceptible to gastrointestinal issues, the spectacle generated backlash and stirred a debate: Had extreme fitness gone too far?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Berkshire, a conglomerate of high-quality businesses with a strong balance sheet, has outperformed dramatically during periods of extreme market stress.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

Masvita took over the care of Aunt Shuvai’s children, a task she enjoyed in spite of her extreme weakness.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

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

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

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

"Sceptical or not, the data shows that we are getting more extremes," Herd said.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

I’m sleeping in Etienne’s room now—“hiding in plain sight” taken to extremes.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

A sharp check from the public authority generally brings out to the front this extremer element in German socialism.

From Contemporary Socialism by John Rae

He seems also to have been, as some others of the extremer Puritans certainly were, pretty loose in his construction of moral laws.

From The English Novel by George Saintsbury

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 William James

He was like his father, the old laird, but there glowed an extremer dark anger and power.

From Foes by Mary Johnston

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

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

The extremest contrasts, the greatest forte and the finest piano, are given factors determined by the individual piano, by the player's skill of touch, and by the acoustic properties of the hall.

From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Josef Hofmann