severe
Example Sentences
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The figures released Thursday follow Tuesday’s trade data, which highlighted a severe cooling in China’s exports growth.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
“The software group has been under severe valuation pressure recently due to fears that generative AI technology makes their collective business models easy to replicate and undermine,” said Richard Baldry, senior research analyst at Roth.
From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026
Women now refuse to turn the clock back even though strict rules on "modesty" and severe punishments are still the law of this land.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
The ECB’s adverse scenario predicts a sharper rise in inflation and lower growth than the baseline, though the impact wouldn’t be as pronounced as its severe scenario.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
JACK: Yes, but you said yourself that a severe chill was not hereditary.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing severe
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