severe
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The Met Office has issued a yellow severe weather warning for fog from Lincolnshire, the East Midlands, the Home Counties into parts of Greater London.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Some analysts view that severe loss of momentum as a signal that the price has further to fall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
A study by Boston University two months ago examined whether severe CTE was linked to cognitive decline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
These estimates are even more severe than what the Social Security trustees suggested in June.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
The air felt like it did before a severe thunderstorm: alive with unimaginable power.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
The Oscars’ viewership woes are severer and more clear-cut: Last year’s broadcast saw a 58 percent drop in viewership from 2020, according to Nielsen.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022
The Morgan has got the Frick Collection’s portrait of Thomas More, while Los Angeles got the Frick’s severer portrait of Thomas Cromwell; neither has been seen among other Holbeins in a century.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2022
This year is predicted to be severer still, with economists forecasting a downswing of between 7% and 11% - unparalleled anywhere in Latin America save Venezuela.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 16, 2019
Past generations of Americans have faced and overcome severer tests.
From MSNBC ● Jan. 16, 2018
In fact, the delivery of such discourses does indicate a quite new ordeal for old-fashioned orthodoxy, and an ordeal which seems to me far severer than any through which it has yet passed.
From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy
Before long, her fortitude is put to the severest of tests, and eventually, so is Olsen’s, upon his return years later.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024
You’d think that Deborah, the seasoned comedian who has weathered the severest industry toxicity imaginable, would appreciate that about Ava.
From Salon ● May 2, 2024
A global authority on food security said that in the coming months, as many as 1.1 million people in Gaza could face the severest levels of hunger.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2024
When this process fails, babies can have something called a neural tube defect, which includes spina bifida where, in the severest form, the spine is exposed and can be damaged.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2023
People, he said, will willingly undergo the severest suffering in order to free themselves from oppression.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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