extreme
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That interaction point moves slightly sideways, a finding that could matter for quantum computers that use laser light to control qubits with extreme precision.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
The lake's extreme briny environment sustains algae blooms that attract flamboyances of pink flamingos that thrive in the area.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Over the past two decades, extreme wildfires have surged by 120% globally, while extreme floods have risen by 134%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Perhaps their focus on health contributes to the generation being less inclined to suffer through such extreme conditions.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
The lady returns and keeps talking at us, louder and louder as if that will help us understand better, about extreme carefulness.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
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The nearly weeklong event takes place on a sun-blasted, nearly six-square-mile patch of a 200-mile Pleistocene-era lakebed in Nevada, and is a place of extremes, with very cold nights and hot days.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
Such weather extremes may have caused queens to abandon their nests or die, reducing the initial spring queen bounty to a more modest population.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Studies show that when you put all three together, he noted, the extremes tend to soften.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
There is "clearly an impact from climate change on the property market", he said, pointing to challenges such as heatwaves, wildfires and other weather extremes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
She was accustomed to the kind of fiery preaching that the church offered, the extremes of showmanship and drama, but one day, she thought, they crossed a line.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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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
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
For such persons as Lydia it has added dignity and joy to a woman's life, without the fever and disorganization which attend its extremer forms.
From The Mating of Lydia by Mrs. Humphry Ward
He professed to like my supernatural beliefs much better than the anti-supernatural views of the extremer portion of his brethren.
From Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story by Joseph Barker
We who have no vocation for the extremer ranges of sanctity will surely be let off at the last day if our humility, asceticism, and devoutness prove of a less convulsive sort.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James
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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But the extremest peril arising from the poverty of the country is exhilarating, compared with the tender mercies of the people.
From The Captive in Patagonia by Benjamin Franklin Bourne
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