in extremis
Example Sentences
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Bond holdings are concentrated in domestic pension funds and life insurers, and in extremis the BoJ could resume buying itself.
From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026
"Obviously if someone is in extremis, is unwell, we need to treat them. We have a duty to do that," he said.
From BBC • Jan. 15, 2024
Realize that something was deeply wrong, that no patient should be in extremis like this?
From Slate • Aug. 7, 2023
She spends much of her segment in extremis: absorbing a medical trauma, howling to save her life, ferally masticating arugula in some kind of furious fugue state.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2022
Every planetary nebula is a token of a star in extremis.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
