drastic
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Driver, putter and ball are usually the most crucial elements, so the move is not as drastic as it might appear.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
Yet its arsenal is facing such drastic shortfalls in some of its most critical weapons!
From Slate • Apr. 24, 2026
Earnings have been fine, and March’s above-expectation retail sales report could assuage concerns about a drastic pullback in consumer spending in response to the war.
From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026
That is a departure from not long ago, when mass layoffs registered as a sign of trouble or mismanagement and that a company needed to take drastic measures to right its performance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
The politicians who supplied funds for the war from exile had publicly repudiated the drastic aims of Colonel Aureliano Buendía, but even that withdrawal of authorization did not seem to bother him.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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