How to Use opposite/other extreme in a Sentence
opposite/other extreme
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The opposite extreme—dry air—could present its own set of problems.
—WIRED, 30 Sep. 2023
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Thunderstorms and other extreme weather in the last few weeks have added to the airlines’ woes.
—Hugo Martínstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2022
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At the other extreme, Category 5 is used for storms with wind speeds of 158 mph or greater.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2024
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At the other extreme, Reform won 1 percent of the seats with 14 percent of the national vote.
—The Editors, National Review, 8 July 2024
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But other extreme weather events are not causing the same upward curve in deaths.
—Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 31 Aug. 2023
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At the other extreme, Massachusetts had the lowest gun death rate in the nation.
—Ramsey Archibald | Rarchibald@al.com, al, 17 Feb. 2023
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This is all on top of the other extreme weather, scorching heat in Texas and Phoenix and floods in the Northeast, that has campers confused — and a bit frustrated.
—Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Washington Post, 23 July 2023
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Last year’s Wild team was an example of the opposite extreme.
—Julian Benbow, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2023
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But, there’s the other extreme, too—where reporters may focus too much on the numbers and do not provide enough context.
—Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 8 June 2021
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At the other extreme were countries like Iraq, where Jews were stripped of their citizenship and had their assets seized.
—Dara Horn, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2020
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At the other extreme, however, people divide themselves in such a way that as few as possible end up in the same room.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2023
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At the other extreme, dark matter could spread out in a fine mist of particles thousands of trillions of trillions of times lighter than electrons.
—Quanta Magazine, 23 Nov. 2020
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So far, none has required the use of a ventilator or other extreme measures.
—Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje, ExpressNews.com, 23 Aug. 2020
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Dylan is a catch — all wonderful kind of fantasist, and Billy is at the other extreme.
—Neal Justin, Star Tribune, 23 Mar. 2021
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Drought, floods and other extreme weather have challenged many of the traditional ways, causing yields to fall.
—Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
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The hail — part of a larger pattern of severe storms, heat and other extreme weather fueled by climate change — smashed the bulk of Scottsbluff’s glass panels.
—Mark Chediak, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
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Few places were untouched by the wild weather, some at the opposite extreme: long-standing record highs were broken in cities in the Midwest, mid-Atlantic and Southeast.
—Trisha Ahmed and Jim Salter, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2023
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At the other extreme, barn finds—neglected and dusty—exert a special allure.
—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 30 Jan. 2024
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The tendency becomes either to throw the baby out with the bathwater and ignore this issue, or go to the other extreme, and not have the technology at all.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Jan. 2024
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Heat waves, wildfires and other extreme events are hitting California and the Southwest hard.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
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Few places were untouched by the wild weather, including some at the opposite extreme: long-standing record highs were broken in cities in the Midwest, mid-Atlantic and Southeast.
—CBS News, 23 Feb. 2023
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Hurricanes and other extreme weather events in areas where oil drilling and refining take place.
—Nerdwallet, The Mercury News, 3 July 2024
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Critics fear that hospital-at-home may exclude those who are already marginalized — or, at the other extreme, become the only option available to those who can’t pay for their care.
—Helen Ouyang, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2023
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Each year, extreme heat kills more Americans than other extreme weather events like wildfires, droughts and floods, Newsom's office said in a statement.
—Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 6 June 2024
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At the other extreme, when D is high, the neural network becomes easier to train, requiring less data to master its artistic skills.
—Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
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At the other extreme, some species seemed to abandon their eggs immediately after laying them.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2023
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More than 1 million customers were without power across the country Friday morning as strong winds and other extreme weather from the winter storm wreaked havoc.
—Kathryn Prociv, NBC News, 24 Dec. 2022
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According to climate modeling, this would likely mean even more heat waves, forest fires, flash floods and other extreme weather events.
—Michael Wysession, Fortune, 27 July 2023
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These features may be helpful in the case of online harassment or other extreme online behavior.
—Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Aug. 2023
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Across the American West, farmers are struggling to grow pumpkins amid drought and other extreme weather patterns attributed to climate change.
—Melina Walling and Brittany Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2023
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