absolute
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While the absolute risk remains low, researchers say the growing popularity of GLP-1 medications makes continued safety monitoring especially important.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
“We’re still a little cautious on high yield because even though the absolute level of yields are great, spreads relative to traditional are still pretty tight,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
Dave Chappelle is equally awful, content-wise, but at least he’s good at being the absolute worst, if that can be a thing for the sake of this argument.
From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2026
Victor Munoz: Played with such a fearlessness and was an absolute nuisance for Man City, causing Nico O'Reilly all sorts of problems.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
She was trying to prove Valley wrong, and she was being an absolute goose.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
No doubt, but as we have seen with the handball law if you add more absolutes that simply results in more disallowed goals.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2025
Johnson told Barron’s that the projected percentage increases represent ranges rather than absolutes, and that individual payouts would depend on the company and the employee’s performance.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2025
Khondji concedes to these particularities, yet he doesn’t think in rigid absolutes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2025
"They are not designed to be absolutes," he said.
From Reuters ● Oct. 2, 2023
But she also understood that sometimes the world was just a little bit more complicated and grown folks liked to operate in absolutes.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
Vocabulary lists containing absolute
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 6
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The New SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, "A Date That Will Live In Infamy" (1941)
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