drastic

Example Sentences

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Investors appeared unimpressed Thursday by a drastic restructuring and further cost cuts at French game giant Ubisoft, with shares plunging and employees saying they are uneasy.

From Barron's

“Basically it was like, if we don’t take some drastic measures to change our behaviors now, we’re going to be in a lot of trouble,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal

A study says Joshua trees could all but disappear from their namesake national park by the end of the century, unless drastic climate action is taken.

From Los Angeles Times

In “The Cradle of Citizenship,” Mr. Traub writes that “education theory is highly ideological, and thus subject to drastic change, while schools themselves are driven by pragmatic calculations that make them resistant to change.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Fairly drastic measures should be reserved for fairly drastic circumstances, and I don’t think we are in fairly drastic circumstances.

From Salon