extreme
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Asked whether this account was accurate, the US official said Blinken “expressed concern that it was a very serious incident… ‘Exceptional and extreme’ is not language that he would typically use.”
From BBC • Oct. 22, 2024
The construction `obscure in the extreme' is the preferred emphatic form. :octal forty: /ok'tl for'tee/ n.
From The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 by Raymond, Eric S.
The construction `obscure in the extreme' is the preferred emphatic form.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
See, for example, `obscure in the extreme' under obscure, and compare highly.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
Now, supposing that on Thursday you dine in town, remember not to be unnecessarily 'perplext in the extreme' where to spend the time before ... five, ... shall I say, at any rate?
From The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 by Browning, Robert
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