as in very
to a great degree
an extremely hot day
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Recent Examples of extremely
When activated the monkey causes complicated and extremely bloody deaths.
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Barry Levitt, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
Photo: James Merrell How to test paint colors How color behaves in relation to other colors and in different light conditions is extremely complex, and nothing beats seeing them in situ, Studholme says.
—Ariel Okin, Vogue, 18 Apr. 2025
Since October 7th, reporting from inside Gaza has been extremely limited.
—Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
But to come to conclusions about the transition between solar corona, the solar wind and the heliosphere, scientists need to isolate extremely faint features within all the solar material — and to isolate those features, there can't be any interference like background stars or zodiacal light.
—Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 18 Apr. 2025
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Barry Levitt, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
Photo: James Merrell How to test paint colors How color behaves in relation to other colors and in different light conditions is extremely complex, and nothing beats seeing them in situ, Studholme says.
—Ariel Okin, Vogue, 18 Apr. 2025
Since October 7th, reporting from inside Gaza has been extremely limited.
—Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
But to come to conclusions about the transition between solar corona, the solar wind and the heliosphere, scientists need to isolate extremely faint features within all the solar material — and to isolate those features, there can't be any interference like background stars or zodiacal light.
—Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 18 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for extremely
Adverb
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Miami closed to within 85-79 very late in the third, a stretch when Miami briefly gave the Cavs problems with their zone defense.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
21 Apr. 2025
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Mansfield is a very desirable place to live, work and play.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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Within the first 100 days of his second administration President Donald Trump has been incredibly busy, implementing major changes from enacting tariffs to targeting diversity initiatives.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA Today,
27 Apr. 2025
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Most importantly, Brian was an incredibly loving father to our two sons and will be greatly missed.—
Katrina Kaufman,
CBS News,
26 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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To Graydon Carter, a founder and coeditor of Air Mail and former editor of Vanity Fair, all of this seems terribly unfair.—
Nathan King,
Architectural Digest,
17 Apr. 2025
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Something would have to go terribly wrong for the Yankees to give up on the 2025 season.—
Chris Kirschner,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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For a generation of music-and-fashion obsessives, Williams, 52, is revered as the original hip-hop eccentric: highly expressive, unapologetically audacious, unafraid to flout menswear conventions, especially the hypermasculine tropes ascribed to rap music.—
Chioma Nnadi,
Vogue,
15 Apr. 2025
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There has never been an objection to describing this highly brutal, murderous conduct in words, nor did anyone object to this office when such crime scene images were recently shown on a Netflix documentary.—
Emily Shapiro,
ABC News,
14 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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Adam Wharton falls into this category too and for that reason completes my midfield.—
Adam Crafton,
New York Times,
19 Apr. 2025
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Many more children were affected by the bombing, too.—
Jenni Carlson,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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In doing so, they were buffered by other Spanish thinkers who took issue with las Casas’s arguments, primarily Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
23 Apr. 2025
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The lefty has struck out 16 batters in 11 innings so far.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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The attack left parts of the residence badly burned, though no one was injured.—
Caitlin Yilek,
CBS News,
17 Apr. 2025
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Additionally, 48 percent said the tariffs were the right idea but they had been executed badly.—
Arick Wierson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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The combo of that large, efficient head; the dampening factor of the wood handle; and a nice texture at the base of the grip just felt so damned good, strike after strike.—
Joe Jackson,
Outside Online,
20 Nov. 2024
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Still, Moore is pretty damned great — this could almost be her Fly.—
Tom Gliatto,
Peoplemag,
20 Sep. 2024
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“Extremely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extremely. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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