absolute
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Looking at it another way, what was the absolute worst time in the past century to invest in U.S. stocks for 10 years?
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Phillip, described as a "master manipulator" in court, was given an absolute discharge, with the judge saying she had "no choice".
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
North Korea, believing that Chinese-style economic reforms would endanger the absolute control of the Kim dynasty, built up a nuclear arsenal to shore up the regime’s power indefinitely.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
Since then, he has gone from a young backup to an absolute icon for El Tri on the World Cup stage.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026
Every object is influenced by the environment it's in, so it’s impossible to cool anything in the universe—a banana, an ice cube, a dollop of liquid helium—to absolute zero.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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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