severe
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However, there could be other effects from more severe storms as well.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
At the event, Trump highlighted the drugs’ “life-changing potential for those suffering from severe mental illness and depression, including our cherished veterans.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
The announcement of the man’s death comes amid severe weather conditions, including heavy rain and wind, that have shut down the festival’s entrance gates several times in recent days.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
It has not yet reached its peak but Central America is already in the throes of a severe drought, prompting Honduras and El Salvador to also declare emergencies.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
He was a middle-aged man with a severe hair part that was slicked back with pomade so thick that it made his hair look waxed.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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
As might be expected in this severer form of mental disturbance, heredity plays an especially important part in circular insanity.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley
He performs with an affectionate twinkle in his eye, offering understanding even when his jealousy is put to the severest test.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
Care for people with the severest ME is "non-existent", the coroner concluded.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 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
The pile of bricks Claire hid behind shielded her from the severest heat and most of the flying debris.
From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy
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