absolute
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It is also almost twice the climate-driven absolute sea level rise of approximately 3.15 millimeters per year.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
Indeed, software stocks are well below their own long-term average on an absolute median P/E measure, Calvasina noted.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
"I can say with absolute certainty that to raise creatures able to survive nature's harshness, they must be toughened up while growing up," Kinjo, 56, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Then it was absolute fear that we weren’t going to see Hot Podium Guy,” says Paul Graham, 48, who works in marketing and has been a fan from the very start.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
I will go back as soon as I can stir: I need not make an absolute fool of myself.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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
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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