extremity
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On behalf of Bosh's next of kin, Mark Stewart KC said: "People might wonder and ask why it is that police officers who are armed do not shoot to injure by shooting an extremity."
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026
Bilateral lower extremity venous Doppler ultrasounds were performed and revealed chronic venous insufficiency, a benign and common condition, particularly in individuals over the age of 70.
From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2025
Guimarães and Lancaster give themselves fearlessly over to a story that is extreme but in a way that is true to the extremity of adolescence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2025
But she’s also the type of person whose extremity and selfishness make it easy for the audience to overlook the filmmaker’s ethically questionable choices, beginning with having Cunningham stand in for him.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2024
Sarai’s suite was at the extremity of the seraph’s right arm, and the others’ were along that same passage, except for Minya’s.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Your core temperature continues to plummet because the chilled blood from your extremities returns to your heart.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
It listed a number of "targeted disabilities": "Hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism".
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2025
Her agile lower extremities might lead you to believe that Foster is made of rubber.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024
Which is to say that she has always been curious about the extremities of human behavior.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2024
A life is present or absent, and it is an instant passed between those extremities.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing extremity
"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
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"The Cask Of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe
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"To Build a Fire," Vocabulary from the short story
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