severe
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Ask the average person what homelessness looks like in America, and the answer invariably involves urban encampments—people with severe mental disabilities or serious addictions living in tents and squalor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
Instead, the evidence pointed to repeated severe droughts that affected the region both before and after the site's final abandonment.
From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026
Bang has limited contact with her grown-up daughter, and fell into severe depression after major back surgery, spending hours alone staring at the ceiling in pain.
From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026
Ali's barrister said there had been "misreporting" around those deaths, which had resulted in "severe repercussions" for his client.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
Two young ladies appeared before me; one very tall, almost as tall as Miss Ingram—very thin too, with a sallow face and severe mien.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing severe
The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 3
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 4
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