stark
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The fire at Jatiwaringin landfill, Wahyu added, should serve as a stark warning to the central government that this crisis cannot be resolved with emergency responses or superficial solutions.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Maxence Visseau, founder of macro and quantitative hedge fund Arkevium Capital, says he’s rarely seen such a stark divide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Temperatures in the beach cities pleasantly hovered in the 70s, a stark contrast to East Coast communities broiling in a heat wave.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026
But that stark dominance may not hold for long.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
He is mad, stark, raving mad, and it’s no use my trying to stop him.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
They are generally about 10% to 20% more expensive than gas-powered cars, a difference made starker by the end of those U.S. tax incentives.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 5, 2026
The contrast cannot be starker: selfie-taking tourists sipping coffee at Starbucks -- an icon of globalisation and capitalism -- while looking out over reclusive, communist North Korea.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
And the disconnect between lofty targets and on-field results has only grown starker.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
The tension between the two men became starker in 1953 when President Eisenhower, during his first two years in office, had to deal with Churchill as prime minister.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Her room always made him feel wistful and envious for the abundance in which she dwelled—a stark contrast with his even starker room.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
They were the starkest sign yet that efforts to clinch a permanent peace agreement are unraveling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
The starkest contrast between then and now is the fiscal policy situation.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
The district court has now laid out, in the starkest terms, the stakes of this case for voting rights, racial equality, and judicial authority.
From Slate ● May 26, 2026
And that is a universal journey that transcends even the starkest barriers of language, culture and politics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2026
Stuart Symington, the secretary of the Air Force, articulated Americans' fears in their starkest terms.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 7–11
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The Catcher in the Rye
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