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Investors can also get burned if a sudden burst of extreme volatility in a stock targeted by one or more leveraged funds leads to a liquidation.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

It earlier said temperatures would soar and humidity levels drop across Spain, causing the fire risk to "surge to very high or extreme levels across almost the entire country".

From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026

Since World War I, the stock exchange has also been shuttered because of extreme weather, the 1977 New York City blackout and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

"These events are a stark reminder of the challenges posed by an increasingly extreme climate and the importance of protecting both people and nature."

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

One of the major goals of the second Five-Year Plan was to multiply the number of civil air routes across the USSR, covering extreme distances and connecting the far-flung corners of the huge country.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Camels are famously known as the ships of the desert, but even these hardy animals are not being spared from the extremes of rising temperatures in Africa.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

"They're different. What is exceptional to us isn't to them. In those extremes, they feel comfortable. Why? Because they are different. What we think is exceptional, they consider normal."

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

El Niño typically increases global temperatures, the World Meteorological Organization said, and high sea-surface temperatures can “intensify heat extremes over nearby land areas.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

Not only does the stock market comprise a greater share of American wealth than ever before, but it has also reached new extremes in terms of heft relative to the broader economy.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 11, 2026

What he grasps very well is that the scholarship boy must move between environments, his home and the classroom, which are at cultural extremes, opposed.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

We still stand on the ground that the English government is founded in usurpation, but we can dispose of all objections by proving the extremer case.

From Principles of Freedom by MacSwiney, Terence J. (Terence Joseph)

Mr Senior had seen its essential principle, the right of subsistence, worked out farther—to extremer and more dangerous consequences—than perhaps any other political or social experiment, before the practical common sense of England interfered.

From The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 by Various

In other respects anarchism may be said to be but an extremer phase of socialism.

From Contemporary Socialism by Rae, John

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 Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

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 Miles, Clement A.

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

To the same class belongs Panebianco, a zealous friend of the extremest claims of the Bourbons.

From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von