Example Sentences

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This is something he calls “the extremeness threshold”: Flooding is not increasing everywhere.

From Scientific American • Oct. 24, 2022

If extremeness is what propels necessary action, does the end justify the means?

From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2018

The explicitness and the extremeness of the artifice is a marker of its authenticity.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 20, 2015

“The extremeness of what I have to do is the daunting part - getting my voice back and my body back,” Mitchell said.

From Washington Times • Nov. 20, 2014

In a less savage fashion we, too, may admit the not very pleasant truth here enunciated with such unjust extremeness.

From A Study of Hawthorne by Lathrop, George Parsons