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extreme

[ik-streem] / ɪkˈstrim /






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These coatings could help prevent tungsten from entering the plasma while reducing heat losses, making it easier to maintain the extreme conditions necessary for fusion.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

Following soldiers’ feedback, the company has prioritized making upgrades to improve the drone’s performance in extreme environments, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Rachel is the latest named entrant in this year's unusually active Pacific hurricane season, weather charged by the recurring El Nino pattern that this time around is particularly extreme.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

No doubt this is partially due to Hoover’s extreme popularity, and Hathaway and Johnson’s bankability — those are fair elements to incorporate here.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

In that gray place the three women lived, all gray themselves and withered as in extreme old age.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Now, researchers have identified something that falls between those two extremes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

The plaintiffs say they have suffered losses amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars from wildfires, flooding and other weather extremes and are seeking compensation.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

At Mennour, Dhewadi Hadjab captures the extremes of the body in motion through his highly realistic paintings that depict amateur dancers in mind-bending contortions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Ayer pushes the emotional and physical extremes and it feels like a dirge: a forced march through the muddy Alaskan wilderness with plenty of body horror on top.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

"I maintain, violence is not the answer to these problems of race and discrimination. We must foster dialogue between the black and white extremes."

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon

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

He was like his father, the old laird, but there glowed an extremer dark anger and power.

From Foes by Mary Johnston

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

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

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

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

The soil of the forest is always moist, except in the extremest droughts, and it is exceedingly rare that a primitive wood suffers from want of humidity.

From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh




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