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extreme

[ik-streem] / ɪkˈstrim /






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There have been examples of similar divergences in the past, but they have been extremely infrequent, and much less extreme.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

The report said 2026 provided "stark reminders" that climate change affects everyone, from extreme heat and wildfires in Europe to the catastrophic glacial flooding in Nepal.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

Bowel cancer can also cause anaemia, the features of which include extreme tiredness and shortness of breath.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

An extreme marine heat wave and a strong El Niño have pushed Southern California water temperatures closer to those of the turtles’ typical nesting grounds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

The trader’s house, Nhamo had learned, lay at one extreme, with the muvuki's house nearby.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Higher prices caused by weather extremes are getting “more frequent … and extreme,” said Barchart’s Newsom.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

Now, researchers have identified something that falls between those two extremes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

"She went to the extremes, really, to get the feeling and the emotion I went through and the struggle."

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

At Mennour, Dhewadi Hadjab captures the extremes of the body in motion through his highly realistic paintings that depict amateur dancers in mind-bending contortions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Nature was part of him; its extremes were part of his very being.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

As the necessity for severity decreases, severity even in social disapproval must lessen; as the individual comes to yield more readily and promptly to a slight spur, extremer methods will be discarded.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams

But even the French Revolution had its humors; and as the English Puritan Revolution gathered head and the extremer sectaries pressed to the front—Quakers, New Lights, Fifth Monarchy Men, Ranters, etc.,—its grotesque sides came uppermost.

From From Chaucer to Tennyson by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

Like them, his revolt against Romanism took an extremer form than Lutheranism, and after a temporary residence in Switzerland and at Strassburg, he arrived in England soon after Elizabeth's accession.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Of course control by the workers, as it was first introduced, led speedily to many absurdities and, much to the dissatisfaction of the extremer elements, has been considerably modified.

From Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome

He seems also to have been, as some others of the extremer Puritans certainly were, pretty loose in his construction of moral laws.

From The English Novel by George Saintsbury

The printing press, praised by Martin Luther as “God’s highest and extremest act of Grace,” led to the Reformation, the Counter-Reformation — and a century of bloody religious wars.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2016

Now even the extremest obscenities have lost their power to shock.

From The Guardian ● May 23, 2013

The President-elect said he hoped the ceremony would be "one of the extremest in simplicity that we have ever had."

From Time Magazine Archive

“There will never be such a thing in my house,” said Wang Lung, in extremest horror.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

"Well, if this doesn't beat all for luck!" said he in a tone of the extremest gratification, his visible features wreathed in an unctuous smile.

From The White Blackbird by Hudson Douglas


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