extreme
adjective
of a character or kind farthest removed from the ordinary or average.
extremes
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pluralof extreme.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Investors seem to be locked in a wrestling match over these extremes, contributing to big swings in bonds last week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
"Denise's entire life revolved between the two extremes of courage and suffering," Luigi Ciotti, president of Libera wrote, calling that a difficult balance.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
The nearly weeklong event takes place on a sun-blasted, nearly six-square-mile patch of a 200-mile Pleistocene-era lakebed in Nevada, and is a place of extremes, with very cold nights and hot days.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
Such weather extremes may have caused queens to abandon their nests or die, reducing the initial spring queen bounty to a more modest population.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
By now she was reverting to mean, mad Miss Katastrophe and our minds were at polar extremes.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
