- plural of extreme.
extremes
Example Sentences
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The nearly weeklong event takes place on a sun-blasted, nearly six-square-mile patch of a 200-mile Pleistocene-era lakebed in Nevada, and is a place of extremes, with very cold nights and hot days.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
Such weather extremes may have caused queens to abandon their nests or die, reducing the initial spring queen bounty to a more modest population.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
"The implications for people are immense because El Nino is a major source of climate extremes and hazards."
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Studies show that when you put all three together, he noted, the extremes tend to soften.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
The answer is always somewhere between the two extremes, and the balance between the two has to be struck afresh with each new topic.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
