severe
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On Friday the forecast triggered a meeting of the Scottish government's resilience room which ensures the country is prepared for severe weather events.
From BBC β Oct. 23, 2026
In China, the market for "legacy premium brands is in severe decline due to intense competition from new Chinese alternatives, basically eliminating profitability for legacy premium brands," the chief executive said.
From Barron's β Oct. 23, 2026
These adverse moves have wrong-footed the hedge-fund community and inflicted severe losses.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 23, 2026
Higher numbers represented more severe symptoms, and participants began the study with an average score of 23.
From Science Daily β Oct. 23, 2026
Her eyebrows had been transformed into pointy, severe arches with a black eye pencil.
From "The Cinderella Ballet Mystery: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #4" by Carolyn Keene
The Oscars’ viewership woes are severer and more clear-cut: Last year’s broadcast saw a 58 percent drop in viewership from 2020, according to Nielsen.
From Washington Post β Mar. 18, 2022
The Morgan has got the Frick Collection’s portrait of Thomas More, while Los Angeles got the Frick’s severer portrait of Thomas Cromwell; neither has been seen among other Holbeins in a century.
From New York Times β Feb. 10, 2022
This year is predicted to be severer still, with economists forecasting a downswing of between 7% and 11% - unparalleled anywhere in Latin America save Venezuela.
From The Guardian β Apr. 16, 2019
Past generations of Americans have faced and overcome severer tests.
From MSNBC β Jan. 16, 2018
The advancement of tragedy to an equal share of popular favour was due to the severer genius of Ennius.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar
Speaking to RTÉ, chairman of the National Emergency Co-ordination Group said Storm Éowyn would "probably be among the severest storms" Ireland had ever seen.
From BBC β Jan. 23, 2025
You’d think that Deborah, the seasoned comedian who has weathered the severest industry toxicity imaginable, would appreciate that about Ava.
From Salon β May 2, 2024
A global authority on food security said that in the coming months, as many as 1.1 million people in Gaza could face the severest levels of hunger.
From New York Times β Mar. 18, 2024
Heat-related illness ranges from heat exhaustion, which causes heavy sweating and a rapid pulse, to heat stroke, which causes confusion, loss of consciousness, high fever, and in many of the severest cases, death.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 31, 2023
The pile of bricks Claire hid behind shielded her from the severest heat and most of the flying debris.
From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy
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