absolute
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“She’s been nothing but professional and an absolute killer when it comes to getting her job done,” Luna said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
British number one Katie Boulter put it a similar way after she partnered the "absolute icon" in the Madrid doubles in April.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
And he wasted no time in declaring to Agrippa and others that he should be addressed as Caesar, even if his power was far from absolute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Africa's last absolute monarchy, Eswatini-- formerly called Swaziland -- is regularly criticised for its poor human rights record.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Of all the things I wanted in my brain right then, the absolute last was Tobias Segal as a big brother.
From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee
It resonates in part because pregnant women are routinely handed absolutes with little explanation and expected to comply, so permission to have a little leeway is a welcome relief.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026
No doubt, but as we have seen with the handball law if you add more absolutes that simply results in more disallowed goals.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025
Johnson told Barron’s that the projected percentage increases represent ranges rather than absolutes, and that individual payouts would depend on the company and the employee’s performance.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2025
Venable treats even his most culpable characters as human beings — perhaps the play’s boldest move in an age of moral absolutes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025
But she also understood that sometimes the world was just a little bit more complicated and grown folks liked to operate in absolutes.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
Vocabulary lists containing absolute
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 6
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The New SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, "A Date That Will Live In Infamy" (1941)
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