extreme
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After the price change in every spending category is measured each month, the most extreme gains and losses are excluded, or “trimmed” from the final calculation.
From Barron's • May 11, 2026
Innocuous as using the term “mother” to describe an actress may ultimately be, it has been proliferated in such an extreme and exaggerated way that the expression has sprinted past “bop” in terms of misuse.
From Salon • May 10, 2026
Under extreme assumptions, these emissions would change the global temperature by thirty-four one-thousands of one degree Celsius—an effect that would be undetectable.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026
It may perform well in ordinary marine settings, but the extreme electrochemical environment of hydrogen production is a different challenge.
From Science Daily • May 10, 2026
This tremor was more extreme, caused by something bigger than a strange stampede.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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