extreme
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That inevitably reignites debate around extreme weight cutting, but there is also a more immediate sporting concern.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Wasps are thought to be quite resilient to extreme weather.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
But while “traumas” does seem extreme, it’s striking how many of the accounts he has gathered seem like a wounded soul’s quest for escape.
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
My look or something else must have struck her as offensive, for she spoke with extreme though suppressed irritation.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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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
Studies show that when you put all three together, he noted, the extremes tend to soften.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
Researchers warn this growing "volatility" could make water supplies, agriculture and infrastructure harder to manage as conditions switch rapidly between extremes.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 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
The far north was a place of extremes.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
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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
O hapless race! what still extremer woe Doth Fortune doom the living to bemoan?
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor
It is a mistake to take the extremer forms of this reaction too seriously, although at the present time this is very frequently done.
From Among Famous Books by John Kelman
Why, with such a quick, analytical brain as his, he might have carried on Darwin's researches to an extremer point of the origination of species than has yet been reached!
From Ardath by Marie Corelli
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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Some new means of supply must be discovered, and the extremest extension of ecclesiastical centralization and papal absolutism has always been recognised at Rome as the most productive source of revenue.
From Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von D?llinger
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