How to Use opposite/other extreme in a Sentence
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The opposite extreme—dry air—could present its own set of problems.
— WIRED, 30 Sep. 2023 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
But other extreme weather events are not causing the same upward curve in deaths.
— Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 31 Aug. 2023 -
At the other extreme, the three exercises that were most correlated with the rest of the tests were push-ups, standing long jump, and the Beep Test.
— Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 14 Aug. 2024 -
At the other extreme, Massachusetts had the lowest gun death rate in the nation.
— Ramsey Archibald | Rarchibald@al.com, al, 17 Feb. 2023 -
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 -
Last year’s Wild team was an example of the opposite extreme.
— Julian Benbow, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2023 -
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 -
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 -
Heat waves are unlike other extreme events such as hurricanes and floods.
— Andrew Freedman, Axios, 16 July 2024 -
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 -
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 -
So far, none has required the use of a ventilator or other extreme measures.
— Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje, ExpressNews.com, 23 Aug. 2020 -
Dylan is a catch — all wonderful kind of fantasist, and Billy is at the other extreme.
— Neal Justin, Star Tribune, 23 Mar. 2021 -
Drought, floods and other extreme weather have challenged many of the traditional ways, causing yields to fall.
— Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023 -
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 -
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 -
At the other extreme, barn finds—neglected and dusty—exert a special allure.
— Robert Ross, Robb Report, 30 Jan. 2024 -
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 -
Heat waves, wildfires and other extreme events are hitting California and the Southwest hard.
— Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023 -
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 -
Hurricanes and other extreme weather events in areas where oil drilling and refining take place.
— Nerdwallet, The Mercury News, 3 July 2024 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
At the other extreme, some species seemed to abandon their eggs immediately after laying them.
— Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2023 -
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 -
Sleep is also disturbed at the other extreme: being really hungry at bedtime.
— Matt Fuchs, TIME, 18 July 2024
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