extreme
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Cavanagh said he wanted to look at extreme power and wealth in America the influence of multi billionaires.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 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
And, while there isn’t enough data to go back as far as some charts of the original Buffett Indicator, he says today’s extreme is in some ways more concerning to him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Texas churches also spoke out against inequality during the Gilded Age — a late 19th-century period of rapid industrial growth that produced extreme wealth inequality, Locke said.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026
The tiny outcroppings of rocks and lonesome islets in the extreme south are littered with the wreckage of dead ships.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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In the meantime, some aficionados are going to extremes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 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
"They're different. What is exceptional to us isn't to them. In those extremes, they feel comfortable. Why? Because they are different. What we think is exceptional, they consider normal."
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Not only does the stock market comprise a greater share of American wealth than ever before, but it has also reached new extremes in terms of heft relative to the broader economy.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 11, 2026
By now she was reverting to mean, mad Miss Katastrophe and our minds were at polar extremes.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
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I reply that I took these extremer examples as yielding the profounder information.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William
It has as yet been practised by no poet at all approaching the first class, except Verlaine, and not by him in its extremer forms.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
He was like his father, the old laird, but there glowed an extremer dark anger and power.
From Foes by Johnston, Mary
Why, with such a quick, analytical brain as his, he might have carried on Darwin's researches to an extremer point of the origination of species than has yet been reached!
From Ardath by Corelli, Marie
A prominent King's man, nay, a Queen's man, which was held to be something extremer, he played, however, an individual part in the struggle.
From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by MacDonell, Anne
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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To the same class belongs Panebianco, a zealous friend of the extremest claims of the Bourbons.
From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von
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