extremes

Example Sentences

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As we do, I hope we will reject the extremes of both the left and the right.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

The WMO says that even a moderate El Nino makes some weather and climate extremes more likely.

From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026

If Euphoria once felt like an exaggerated but emotionally resonant portrait of Gen Z adolescence, its latest season has pushed that chaos to near-surreal extremes.

From BBC • May 30, 2026

“I’ve spent many years trying to understand what that is. Movie after movie, life experience after life experience, going to certain extremes to say, ‘Oh, is it in the physical world?

From Salon • May 27, 2026

Furthermore, since perceptions tend to become realities, the natural tendency of the mass media to accentuate the anomalous, combined with an innumerate society’s taste for such extremes, could conceivably have quite dire consequences.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos