drastic
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Appeared in the June 11, 2026, print edition as 'OpenAI Weighs Drastic Price Cuts'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
Drastic infield shifts have become so common across the majors over the last decade that it’s been more noteworthy when an infield doesn’t shift.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2022
Drastic action needed to be taken, she said.
From BBC • May 23, 2022
Drastic infection surges among the inoculated from the United States to Russia have revealed the vaccine’s declining defenses against infection even as its protection against hospitalization and death remains strong.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 26, 2022
His parents gave him a fifty-dollar gift certificate to Drastic Plastic, the punk rock record store downtown.
From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell
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