extreme
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Perhaps their focus on health contributes to the generation being less inclined to suffer through such extreme conditions.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
The series of extreme heatwaves since late spring resulted in marine heatwaves, where sea surface temperatures have risen up to 5C above normal.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
But while “traumas” does seem extreme, it’s striking how many of the accounts he has gathered seem like a wounded soul’s quest for escape.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
By providing such a detailed biological snapshot of extreme longevity, the study gives researchers around the world a new reference point for investigating the aging process.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Under the cloak of extreme secrecy, Soviet merchant ships began ferrying R-12 medium-range nuclear missile parts, launchers, and technicians to Cuba.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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The nearly weeklong event takes place on a sun-blasted, nearly six-square-mile patch of a 200-mile Pleistocene-era lakebed in Nevada, and is a place of extremes, with very cold nights and hot days.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
Studies show that when you put all three together, he noted, the extremes tend to soften.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
The tests were designed to verify that the company's sensors remain accurate across the temperature extremes they could encounter during descent to the lunar surface.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
"El Nino may influence tropical cyclone activity in the Central and East Pacific and could alter the risk of floods, wildfires, and other weather extremes elsewhere," it said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
I am composed of strong metal, am continuously conscious, and can stand extremes of environment easily.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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He professed to like my supernatural beliefs much better than the anti-supernatural views of the extremer portion of his brethren.
From Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story by Joseph Barker
In other respects anarchism may be said to be but an extremer phase of socialism.
From Contemporary Socialism by John Rae
For such persons as Lydia it has added dignity and joy to a woman's life, without the fever and disorganization which attend its extremer forms.
From The Mating of Lydia by Mrs. Humphry Ward
I reply that I took these extremer examples as yielding the profounder information.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James
It is a mistake to take the extremer forms of this reaction too seriously, although at the present time this is very frequently done.
From Among Famous Books by John Kelman
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
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“There will never be such a thing in my house,” said Wang Lung, in extremest horror.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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Thence the Sibyl to the plain's extremest boundary led him, Where world-fam'd warriors, a lionlike company, haunted.
From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Robert Bridges
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