extremes
Example Sentences
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Investors seem to be locked in a wrestling match over these extremes, contributing to big swings in bonds last week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
"Denise's entire life revolved between the two extremes of courage and suffering," Luigi Ciotti, president of Libera wrote, calling that a difficult balance.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
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
Nevertheless, they both reached such extremes of virtuosity that when they became exhausted from excitement, they would take advantage of their fatigue.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
