gravest

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Expulsion from the House requires a two-thirds majority, a threshold so high that Congress has wielded the sanction only in the gravest cases, removing just six members in its 237-year history.

From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026

The United Nations General Assembly this week overwhelmingly backed a resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade "the gravest crime against humanity".

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

Cato correctly identified excessive personal ambition as the gravest threat to the Republic, but Mr. Hoyos’s account suggests he badly misjudged his enemy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 16, 2025

As she explained, the Humphreys case is “squarely among ‘the gravest and most important’ cases in which the no-impeachment rule should yield to avoid ‘violating the plainest principles of justice.’

From Slate • Oct. 20, 2025

It was East New Orleans, or the Lower Ninth, with its one-story houses so close to the levees, that were in the gravest danger.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers