extreme
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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
Wasps are thought to be quite resilient to extreme weather.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 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
“I just don’t think the experience is worth having to survive a week of whiteouts and extreme mud if it rains,” she added.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
“Tell him to take his witness away directly,” said my guardian to the clerk, in extreme disgust, “and ask him what he means by bringing such a fellow as that.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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"Denise's entire life revolved between the two extremes of courage and suffering," Luigi Ciotti, president of Libera wrote, calling that a difficult balance.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
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
Studies show that when you put all three together, he noted, the extremes tend to soften.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
The tests were designed to verify that the company's sensors remain accurate across the temperature extremes they could encounter during descent to the lunar surface.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
When you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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Theosophy in its extremer forms it cannot absorb at all.
From Modern Religious Cults and Movements by Gaius Glenn Atkins
Mr Senior had seen its essential principle, the right of subsistence, worked out farther—to extremer and more dangerous consequences—than perhaps any other political or social experiment, before the practical common sense of England interfered.
From The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 by Various
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
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 From Chaucer to Tennyson by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
In other respects anarchism may be said to be but an extremer phase of socialism.
From Contemporary Socialism by John Rae
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 furrow runs up to the extremest point of a vast field without hedges.
From Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Charles Knight
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