gravest

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Alicia Keys fills the CRV that drives me past MacArthur Park, site of my gravest parenting anxieties.

From Slate • May 10, 2026

The UN General Assembly on Wednesday designated the transatlantic African slave trade as "the gravest crime against humanity," despite opposition by the United States and some European countries.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

The visibly injured Ali, who showed no emotion during the sentencing hearing, has become one of fewer than 80 prisoners to be serving a whole life term, only handed down for the gravest offences.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026

The demolition provoked the worst religious violence in India for many decades - it was, he said years later, the "gravest setback" to secularism since the country's independence from Britain in 1947.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2026

Here she was, a young Norwegian in a foreign land, suddenly having to face all alone the very gravest problems and responsibilities.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl