gravest

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TOKYO—One of the major surprises about the gravest energy shock since the 1970s is how resilient much of the world has been so far.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

Expulsion from the House requires a two-thirds majority, a threshold so high that Congress has wielded the sanction only in the gravest cases, removing just six members in its 237-year history.

From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026

Member states are set to vote on a resolution - led by Ghana - to recognise the transatlantic slave trade as "the gravest crime against humanity".

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

Cato correctly identified excessive personal ambition as the gravest threat to the Republic, but Mr. Hoyos’s account suggests he badly misjudged his enemy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 16, 2025

The steep decline of these numbers over the centuries suggests that, for one of the gravest human concerns—getting murdered—- the incentives that we collectively cook up are working better and better.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt