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extreme

[ik-streem] / ɪkˈstrim /






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The findings, published on Aug. 19, 2026, in Science Advances, underscore the importance of understanding how long Earth microbes can persist in extreme lunar environments.

From Science Daily Aug. 25, 2026

The combination of extreme heat, gusty winds and low humidity brings a “significant risk” of “large plume dominated fires with rapid fire spread and extreme fire behavior,” according to forecasters.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

However, while UBS’s index is flagging extreme market vulnerability, the strategists warn that the catalyst is not certain and that they first need to determine what it will or will not be.

From MarketWatch Aug. 25, 2026

The extreme weather has left about 2,800 homes across 10 villages without electricity, according to officials.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

"Gregory's jokes are getting to be way too extreme," George whispered to Nancy.

From "The Cinderella Ballet Mystery: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #4" by Carolyn Keene

"Anyone who chooses to put themselves into the extremes of nature like this is a hero in my eyes," she said.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

I just had to turn up the extremes when it came to Agnes, and really make sure to keep those things that she keeps close to her heart guarded.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

The tests were designed to verify that the company's sensors remain accurate across the temperature extremes they could encounter during descent to the lunar surface.

From Science Daily Aug. 11, 2026

"El Nino may influence tropical cyclone activity in the Central and East Pacific and could alter the risk of floods, wildfires, and other weather extremes elsewhere," it said.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

The far north was a place of extremes.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

O hapless race! what still extremer woe Doth Fortune doom the living to bemoan?

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor

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

From Foes by Mary Johnston

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 Brief History of English and American Literature by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

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

For such persons as Lydia it has added dignity and joy to a woman's life, without the fever and disorganization which attend its extremer forms.

From The Mating of Lydia by Mrs. Humphry Ward

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

It was an old woman with features of the extremest ugliness, which struck the eye the more because they were set off, in a singular manner, against a scarlet boddice covered with gold lace.

From Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck by Ludwig Tieck




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