severity

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Investors gauging the energy squeeze’s severity might want a second opinion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

The survey explored both how the participants perceived the nature and severity of the risk regarding Social Security, Medicare and fiscal policy, and how they might act to hedge the risk.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026

The severity of seemingly mundane, everyday anxieties — school bullies, the prom, graduation, obnoxious Cher-obsessed college roommates — is on par with demons trying to hasten the apocalypse.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026

“The good news about California water infrastructure is it really does take a multi-year drought of significant severity to seriously threaten the actual water supply,” said Swain.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026

But the Director’s face, as he entered the Fertilizing Room with Henry Foster, was grave, wooden with severity.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley