extreme
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Treatments such as chemotherapy, ovarian suppression and endocrine therapies can trigger an early extreme complex menopause or cause menopause-like symptoms, including hot flushes, sleep problems, joint pain, fatigue, low mood and changes to sexual health.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
Like those pulled by devout religion or extreme acts of faith, Morrison and Nelson are powerless before their distinct higher calling — especially with the literal highest calling of all, Everest, in their sights.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026
In that respect, extreme climbing is an incredibly selfish endeavor.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026
Their atoms are arranged in a specific crystal pattern that can make them especially vulnerable to brittle failure in extreme cold.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
“Friends. The life you are training for is one of extreme stress and strain. Friends can help with that.”
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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Higher prices caused by weather extremes are getting “more frequent … and extreme,” said Barchart’s Newsom.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
That swing to extremes is itself the source of further disruptions to supply chains, in Weber’s view.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Now, researchers have identified something that falls between those two extremes.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
"She went to the extremes, really, to get the feeling and the emotion I went through and the struggle."
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
I’m sleeping in Etienne’s room now—“hiding in plain sight” taken to extremes.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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In other respects anarchism may be said to be but an extremer phase of socialism.
From Contemporary Socialism by John Rae
But even the French Revolution had its humors; and as the English Puritan Revolution gathered head and the extremer sectaries pressed to the front—Quakers, New Lights, Fifth Monarchy Men, Ranters, etc.—its grotesque sides came uppermost.
From Brief History of English and American Literature by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
I reply that I took these extremer examples as yielding the profounder information.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James
It has as yet been practised by no poet at all approaching the first class, except Verlaine, and not by him in its extremer forms.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
Of course control by the workers, as it was first introduced, led speedily to many absurdities and, much to the dissatisfaction of the extremer elements, has been considerably modified.
From Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome
The printing press, praised by Martin Luther as “God’s highest and extremest act of Grace,” led to the Reformation, the Counter-Reformation — and a century of bloody religious wars.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2016
Now even the extremest obscenities have lost their power to shock.
From The Guardian ● May 23, 2013
The President-elect said he hoped the ceremony would be "one of the extremest in simplicity that we have ever had."
From Time Magazine Archive
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“There will never be such a thing in my house,” said Wang Lung, in extremest horror.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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The soil of the forest is always moist, except in the extremest droughts, and it is exceedingly rare that a primitive wood suffers from want of humidity.
From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh
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