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extreme

[ik-streem] / ɪkˈstrim /






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However, these king tides will be exceptionally extreme, producing some of the highest tides due to astronomical reasons alone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

Activity over the summer was dragged by extreme weather as low water levels disrupted some of Germany’s key industrial waterways.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Scientists have developed and tested the first three-dimensional thermal invisibility cloak, a device that can conceal objects from infrared cameras while protecting them from extreme temperatures.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

Experts have warned of more extreme weather events because of global warming.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 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

This may seem to be uncomfortably topical in an era when the divide between extremes of poverty and wealth are much noted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

OpenAI's agents seem to feature quite prominently in the current roll call of AI products taking their remits to extremes.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

No suggestion that he had wasted yet another night risking his life for an ungrateful foreigner who would never be able to repay him—the Aerodrome Drop-Off Principle taken to extremes.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

A sharp check from the public authority generally brings out to the front this extremer element in German socialism.

From Contemporary Socialism by John Rae

Why, with such a quick, analytical brain as his, he might have carried on Darwin's researches to an extremer point of the origination of species than has yet been reached!

From Ardath by Marie Corelli

Hence the extremer Puritans were completely out of touch with the sensuous poetry of Christmas, a festival which, as we shall see, they actually suppressed when they came into power.

From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles

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

The extremer the physical effort, the greater the strain on the inner or moral powers.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Robert Ezra Park

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

In all the land no finer, firmer exemplar of elemental constancy could ever have been found to guide and cheer the Nation's course in this extremest test of elemental self-respect.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee


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