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extreme

[ik-streem] / ɪkˈstrim /






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So I said to “Tenzing” director Jennifer Peedom and cinematographer Stefan Duscio after our discussion of the film, in which they detailed the extreme lengths required to re-create the first-ever summit of Mt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Under these extreme conditions, small amounts of elements such as carbon, calcium, and sodium interact with the surrounding helium plasma.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

Services for children are in a "state of emergency" and young people across England are facing extreme and unfair inequality, a new report says.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Some think this is so extreme it is a bubble in earnings, the E part of the PE ratio.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Monotonous to the extreme, DNA seemed to be quite the opposite of Schrödinger’s imagined chemical—not just a stupid molecule but worse: a boring one.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

More frequent and intense weather extremes are expected as a result of climate change, with Wales facing the prospect of wetter, wilder winters more often.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

This may seem to be uncomfortably topical in an era when the divide between extremes of poverty and wealth are much noted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Ayer pushes the emotional and physical extremes and it feels like a dirge: a forced march through the muddy Alaskan wilderness with plenty of body horror on top.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 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

Their bodies would also become less tolerant of heat and cold, for Libra would not experience the extremes of temperature that we find in Alaskan winters or Arizona summers.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins

Like them, his revolt against Romanism took an extremer form than Lutheranism, and after a temporary residence in Switzerland and at Strassburg, he arrived in England soon after Elizabeth's accession.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

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

In other respects anarchism may be said to be but an extremer phase of socialism.

From Contemporary Socialism by John Rae

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

Theosophy in its extremer forms it cannot absorb at all.

From Modern Religious Cults and Movements by Gaius Glenn Atkins

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

“There will never be such a thing in my house,” said Wang Lung, in extremest horror.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

St Paul’s ideas were here developed to their extremest consequences, and in an entirely one-sided fashion such as was far from being in his intention.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various


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