extreme
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The risk of dwindling electricity supplies has caused a spike in the price utilities pay power plant owners to operate on standby during times of extreme demand.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
"The travellers found themselves trapped in the heart of a hostile environment where extreme temperatures and lack of supply points make survival extremely difficult," said a statement from the Agadez governor.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
Some males fathered more calves than others, but the difference was not as extreme as researchers had expected.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026
Bardem gets the most, and most extreme attitudes, to play, whether cozying up individually to the Bowdens, threatening a groupie, undergoing a religious conversion, acting normal or being weird.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
“Tell him to take his witness away directly,” said my guardian to the clerk, in extreme disgust, “and ask him what he means by bringing such a fellow as that.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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