absolute
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"We see a rising dependence on migrant workers, tending towards absolute dependence."
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
“What an absolute disaster! 20-0!? What an absolute dog … prediction and opinion to have. Have a good time watching football the rest of the weekend … you deserve to eat crow!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
It does not, by itself, explain whether time had an absolute beginning.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
There was the time, for instance, when a friend was mulling over a family challenge, and I thought I had the absolute perfect solution for juggling her personal desires with her caregiving commitments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
His perfectionism seemed absolute, even when they took walks to other villages and he insisted on quizzing her about the Latin names of plants they saw.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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
Venable treats even his most culpable characters as human beings — perhaps the play’s boldest move in an age of moral absolutes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025
"They are not designed to be absolutes," he said.
From Reuters ● Oct. 2, 2023
All of us, when it comes to personality, naturally think in terms of absolutes: that a person is a certain way or is not a certain way.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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