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severity

[suh-ver-i-tee] / səˈvɛr ɪ ti /


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But Cloudflare’s earnings showed that customers are flocking to the company to protect their data from agentic AI threats, which have increased in severity recently.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

"This is a first, modest-size study, and the associations with speech and clinical severity will need to be tested in larger independent samples before we can be confident in them," Wei said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

In June, the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a measure of the severity and magnitude of food crises, estimated that 5.1 million people in Sudan faced severe hunger.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

But genuinely funny moments are rare, badly outnumbered by done-to-death musings regarding the mysteries of being alive and torturous melodramatic moments in which Klara dully absorbs the severity of Josie’s illness and Chrissy’s sorrow.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Kaede looked at Taisin, who was gradually realizing the severity of the situation, and said, “We must go very carefully, on our hands and knees. Don’t try to rush it.”

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

It follows hundreds of asthma patients of different ages, sexes, and disease severities.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2023

In an untreated forest, what some might see as fuel, others “see as incredible habitat for wildlife because it’s a mosaic of different burn severities that is extraordinarily biodiverse.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2022

Overnight curfew rules of varying severities have been in place since a national state of disaster was declared in late March 2020.

From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2021

He said Kazimir was accused of the lowest of three severities of crime in Slovakia’s penal code that is punishable by up to five years in prison, but gave no details of the case.

From Reuters ● Oct. 13, 2021

He knew about as much as was known about the anatomy of the brain and the symptoms and severities of lesion and thrombus.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck


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