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as in farthest
most distant from a center
spacecraft that is specially designed to explore the extreme edge of our solar system
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as in radical
being very far from the center of public opinion
their extreme political views attracted only a small band of followers
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as in excessive
going beyond a normal or acceptable limit in degree or amount
in their extreme zeal the members of the cult are willing to do whatever their leader dictates
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as in extremity
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Recent Examples of extreme
Tammy Webber,
Fortune,
23 June 2026
The most extreme conditions were hitting millions in France, Spain and Britain on Tuesday, where temperatures kept climbing to exceptionally high levels for early summer.
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Elmira Aliieva,
NBC news,
23 June 2026
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
Because extremes are rare, even a very large training dataset may lack certain kinds of events, or at least any examples as extreme as what might be about to happen in the real world.
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ArsTechnica,
8 June 2026
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What’s more, the federal government’s mapping method is arguably outdated and does not account for actual risks as climate change increases the odds of more extreme weather.
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Tammy Webber,
Fortune,
23 June 2026
The most extreme conditions were hitting millions in France, Spain and Britain on Tuesday, where temperatures kept climbing to exceptionally high levels for early summer.
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Elmira Aliieva,
NBC news,
23 June 2026
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In the last extreme, that means that one person’s exercise of their free will deprives someone else of all their rights.
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Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
Because extremes are rare, even a very large training dataset may lack certain kinds of events, or at least any examples as extreme as what might be about to happen in the real world.
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ArsTechnica,
8 June 2026
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That's close to the farthest point in its orbit, which is 252,088 miles away, according to NASA.
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At its farthest, the capsule was more than 268,000 miles from Earth.
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Conceived as an exercise in radical reduction, the movement reflects a design philosophy that privileges essential structure over accumulation.
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With just seven days to go until their July 2 deadline, proponents of Oregon’s PEACE Act are rushing to gather enough signatures to ensure that the radical hunting and fishing ban makes the ballot.
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Christensen suggests the state should instead focus on stripping back environmental regulations that make brush clearance and fire prevention costly, which would ensure state firefighters are not working excessive overtime and the state budget is not being stretched beyond its means.
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Last September, the group published a 336-page report affirming that ABA should be included as a basic benefit under TRICARE, without the excessive administrative barriers that have disrupted treatment for children in military families.
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In other words, no update on America’s most important lower extremity.
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Baltimore County police are investigating how two youths obtained a gun that discharged Thursday and wounded one of them in the lower extremity, police said.
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If convicted as charged, Sanchez faces a minimum of 15 years in prison and a maximum of life in prison.
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In total, the F4-425 Pro can hold up to a maximum of 120TB of data with the advantage of splitting storage across HDD and NVMe bays so that files for video editing or current projects can be stored on the ultra-fast SSDs, while archive files and backups can be stored on the HDDs.
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San Joaquin County is seeing a rise in rabid bats, but public health officials said not to worry.
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The moment Rekha moves to task 9, the tone shifts into rabid competition mode.
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The Lenovo ThinkBook 16 Gen 8 laptop shows up ready to work with a snappy Intel Core Ultra 7 processor, insane 32GB of RAM, and spacious 2TB SSD in its (figurative) briefcase.
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Eventually, though, Lestat breaks, coming clean about his tumultuous past with first lover Nicolas de Lenfent (Joseph Potter), who went insane after being attacked by Armand (Assad Zaman) in Paris in the late 18th century.
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Jaehaerys reigned over the Seven Kingdoms for nearly 60 years during a time of peace and prosperity at the peak of the Targaryen dynasty.
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For fans who’ve followed Sudwerk through the rise, peak and current contraction of American craft beer, the move may be bittersweet but not exactly shocking.
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“Extreme.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extreme. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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