I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a extreme measure
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The public would not be in favour of such an extreme measure.
an extreme emergency (= a situation that is very worrying or dangerous )
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These weapons should be used only in an extreme emergency.
an extreme example
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To give you an extreme example, one lady called the police fifteen times in a single evening.
an extreme position
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Few people hold this extreme position today.
an extreme sport (= one that is dangerous )
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Many teenagers are attracted to extreme sports such as snowboarding.
At the opposite extreme,
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At the opposite extreme, Ashworth’s style is very simple and modern.
extreme caution
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Bears can be dangerous and walkers should proceed with extreme caution.
extreme fighting
extreme temperatures
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The material has to be able to withstand extreme temperatures.
extreme
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a politician who has extreme views on immigration
extreme/severe poverty
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They live in conditions of extreme poverty.
extreme/severe
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These mountain people are used to the extreme climate.
great/deep/extreme reluctance
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He said the firm had made the job cuts with great reluctance.
severe/extreme embarrassment
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This scandal could cause severe embarrassment to the government.
severe/serious/extreme hardship (= very bad )
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The 1930s brought severe hardship to the Midwest, especially for Oklahoma.
the intense/extreme heat
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She was in need of a cooling drink in the intense heat.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
care
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If he writes slowly and with extreme care , he forsakes natural rhythm and ease of style.
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Virginia liked to watch them when they were in a mood that required that they be handled with extreme care .
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However, this kind of educational process needs to be carried out with extreme care .
case
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In some extreme cases , theorising obliterates any need for empirical method.
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In extreme cases , they break windows and fill the inside of the car with snow.
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The extreme case is, of course, a partial reinforcement schedule in which food is sometimes presented and sometimes not.
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They represent extreme cases of female aggressiveness, male nurturance, and other seemingly anomalous behavior.
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Only in the most extreme cases does any sense of closure pertain.
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Then the militia, or the U. S. Army, in extreme cases , would enforce the injunction.
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The award of a franchise to an entirely new company, from scratch, was thus the extreme case .
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However, incorrect stretching can cause untold damage and even permanent injuries in extreme cases .
caution
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However, a partner needs gentle handling to tread gently and with extreme caution .
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In reality, the tsar proceeded with extreme caution .
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Exercise extreme caution in babies with renal or hepatic failure.
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It is therefore advisable that all practice be carried out with extreme caution .
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She even exercises extreme caution about what she throws into her waste-paper bin.
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Treat special offers with extreme caution .
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He was going to have to move with extreme caution .
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Providing walkers exercise extreme caution no major problems should be encountered.
circumstances
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A careful record, with corroboration, is always desirable in such extreme circumstances .
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Only once had he said he loved her, and that had been in extreme circumstances .
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This could include the imposition of sanctions or in extreme circumstances suspension of the client from that establishment.
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In extreme circumstances the customer or supplier may seek to use its strong position and extract personal benefits in return for giving its consent.
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An officer who spent his career patrolling a middle-class suburb would only in extreme circumstances be involved in a physical encounter.
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In extreme circumstances borrowers might be allowed to pay interest only for a while.
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The wearing of a plaster cast was only allowed in extreme circumstances and brown suede shoes were definitely out.
difficulty
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The extreme difficulty in getting information suggests some state secret.
end
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Evictions are the extreme end of the bailiff's duties.
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But the extreme ends of the continent seem afflicted with retro-chic shallowness when it comes to cocktails.
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Roots and leafless bushes stuck up wildly at the extreme end of the strip.
example
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An extreme example of such extension can be found in the description of teaching as an act of violence.
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Indeed, they are one of the more extreme examples .
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An extreme example of this is broadcasting expenditure.
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The extreme example of this is the call centre, where time spent on refreshment breaks is often deducted from pay.
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In an extreme example , imagine you have been told you have an incurable disease.
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Fresh food is the most extreme example of the change that has come over the shops.
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It represented an extreme example of a theocracy - of a body politic organised essentially around religious principles.
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An extreme example of Western attitude towards animals is the so-called blood sports, most of which have now died out.
form
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This is anomic aphasia. 9.2.6 Global aphasia Global aphasia could be thought of as the most extreme form of aphasia.
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Even the most extreme forms of self-mortification have ancient parallels.
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The most extreme form of dramatic playing would be egocentric play.
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In its extreme form , the domain of appropriate state action is reduced to almost nothing, a perspective usually termed libertarianism.
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This is an extreme form of ignoring.
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The extreme form of this view, in which there is no role for the state, is labeled anarchism.
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These feminist differences surfaced in a more extreme form in the months after the passing of the act.
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The price that has to be paid, in extreme form , is neurosis.
left
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Developing your film To get your film developed you need to go to the extreme left of the upper level.
measure
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Public opinion, it was argued, would react unfavourably to such an extreme measure .
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It was not an alien phenomenon and, as such, did not provoke an extreme response or demand extreme measures .
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Extreme measures perhaps but unfortunately extreme measures are becoming necessary.
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He hoped that such extreme measures would not be necessary.
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In times of political unrest, the danger that extreme measures will be taken increases.
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So when a blizzard or a budget standoff sends them home, some federal workaholics resort to extreme measures .
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The strike is the most extreme measure by which the students can peacefully protest their dissatisfactions.
position
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I would not accept this extreme position .
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This allows presidential candidates to jump on their bandwagons without being held accountable for their extreme positions .
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Many observers argue that banning political parties is counter-productive because it forces moderates into more extreme positions .
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They tend to talk more extremely and take more extreme positions .
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Hold in this extreme position for 25 counts, stretching a little further with each count.
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This is typified by the extreme positions of the Black Paperites and the neo-Marxist Freeschoolers and Deschoolers.
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Hold for 1 second in this extreme position .
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Hold for 1 second in that extreme position , then push and stretch a little further for a count of 25.
poverty
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He moved there in 1920 and his first years were marked by extreme poverty .
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Chancey, who had never known his parents, was being raised by an old aunt in extreme poverty .
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For most, this was their first exposure to extreme poverty .
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He points out that the working classes consisted mainly of peasants forced off the land through extreme poverty .
pressure
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More often the cause is loss of confidence or extreme pressure of work.
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There is extreme pressure for production and keeping costs down.
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In 376, however, the Visigoths found themselves under extreme pressure from the Huns, an Asiatic people from the steppes.
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They were under extreme pressure and the pressure itself was impairing performance.
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He batted for almost 2 hours and hit four fours under extreme pressure .
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He needs to be in a place without the extreme pressure .
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What is the cost to staff working under extreme pressure ?
right
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The vote for the extreme right is depressing, but not the beginning of a trend, let alone das End.
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My platoon was the lead platoon on the extreme right .
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At the extreme right of the picture the top of the Citicorp Building has been spun through 180 degrees.
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He was awarded a law degree at the Sorbonne, where he flirted with the extreme right .
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The basic tenor of the publications of the extreme Right has scarcely altered since that date.
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Here we formed the extreme right of the line of battle...
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The large mill owner's house is on the extreme right .
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We women can not be lured back as long as the extreme right is in control.
situation
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We also hear the results of this false dualism in less extreme situations in our own public life.
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In the end this backfired, since it meant the bomb could only be used in the most extreme situation imaginable.
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This extreme role can be used to try to understand extreme situations .
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In extreme situations , it may be necessary to resort to arbitration.
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In extreme situations like this it is not surprising that the local population becomes angered.
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In their view separation should only happen in extreme situations where the child is physically at risk.
view
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I think maybe he didn't share some of their more extreme views .
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The new administration leaned toward a more extreme view on contagion than patients had experienced in years.
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Smith expressed his typically extreme view that the appointment of Coleman was the greatest calamity the veterinary profession ever experienced.
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Quinton would not accept the third thesis mentioned, and it is a very extreme view .
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Nature is a precarious system, likely to accelerate to catastrophe if tampered with, is one extreme view .
violence
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Such measures are obviously justified where extreme violence has taken place or serious acts of vandalism have been committed.
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Rated R for brief nudity and extreme violence .
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After all, if they were premeditated, why were they carried out with such extreme violence ?
weather
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The walks take place in all but the most extreme weather conditions, so please wear suitable outdoor clothing.
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In fact, many buy snow insurance as a hedge against extreme weather .
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Global warming will deeply affect poor countries, leading to huge numbers of refugees, crop failures, and extreme weather .
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If so, are we all facing more extreme weather ?
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Scientists can also understand more about possible links with extreme weather like hurricanes.
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It was known that fasting could cause hallucinations, and extreme weather conditions were thought to affect the mind.
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In addition, the surface is not affected by extreme weather conditions.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
carry sth too far/to extremes/to excess
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It was funny at first, but you've carried the joke too far.
lurch from one crisis/extreme etc to another
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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extreme left-wing groups
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extreme nationalists
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extreme temperatures
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Buchanan's political views are too extreme for most Americans.
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The organization says they consider Kahane's views to be extreme .
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The refugees face a winter of extreme hardship.
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We like to present an extreme position to get people to react to it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But memory is highly selective, particularly within an organization that has weathered numerous crises and moments of extreme duress.
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He hoped that such extreme measures would not be necessary.
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Hold in this extreme position for 25 counts, stretching a little further with each count.
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It had always been one of his Walter Mittyisms to run a restaurant, and this we discussed with extreme earnestness.
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That imbalance in brain chemicals also could lead to exaggerated responses to stress, resulting in extreme fatigue.
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Therefore, emotion, which can interfere with attention when it is extreme , is nevertheless the cornerstone of attention.
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This is anomic aphasia. 9.2.6 Global aphasia Global aphasia could be thought of as the most extreme form of aphasia.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
opposite
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At the opposite extreme of a pulse of extremely long duration, the Fourier spectrum only contains extremely low frequencies.
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Alfonsina Storni seems to have veered as far as possible to the opposite extreme .
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At the opposite extreme , paupers' graves had long been unmarked; but in between, death had been the metaphorical leveller.
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The opposite extreme is to find one individual and share all the duties of parenthood equally, as albatrosses do.
other
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At the other extreme were open villages where the land was divided among a large number of freeholders and smallholders.
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At the other extreme is the introduction of market principles into local authority practice by means of paid care schemes.
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Our brains are no better equipped to handle extremes of complexity than extremes of size and the other difficult extremes of physics.
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At the other extreme of cost is drilled emplacement.
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At the other extreme is the park to which the public has unrestricted access during daylight hours.
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At the other extreme stood Great Britain.
polar
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Nietzsche was soon to substitute a new opposition whose polar extremes were occupied by visual art and music.
■ VERB
avoid
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If you intend to change gauges and/or tunings regularly, try to avoid ridiculous extremes .
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An early rule-of-thumb was to avoid any extremes of emotional behaviour.
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True to our traditions, we have avoided all extremes .
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However, one should avoid extremes in dress which may cause uneasiness.
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There is a quiet pride that the profession avoided the extremes in adapting to modern ways.
carry
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And for some schools, this may be an interesting option, though if carried to extremes , it has serious limitations.
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Mrs Norris carries thrift to extremes .
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The doctrine of the origin of domestic races from several aboriginal stocks was once carried to absurd extremes .
go
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Predictably, it has not gone to extremes .
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Victims' advocate Gail Leland said that too often parents go from one extreme to the other.
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Sharing here goes to extremes that foreigners have a hard time comprehending.
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The river goes from one extreme to the other and, what with all the metaphor, sometimes gets pretty muddy.
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Do not be tempted to go to extremes .
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There may be no reason for normal people to go to such extremes .
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The more that you are yourself, the more people will go to extremes in their feeling about you.
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My experience, dating back to the Depression, convinces me Wall Street goes to extremes .
take
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But few take it to such extremes as Rome.
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Anything can be taken to extremes .
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Painting in ripstop nylon has been taken to extremes by Tom Casselman.
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Irigaray has offered some clues, but she takes the extreme of the feminine position as her point of departure.
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But both communities must recognise the cancerous effect of sectarianism, taken to these extremes .
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That is certainly taking caution to extremes .
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If taken to extremes , such policies carried within them the potential to precipitate a catastrophic decline into hyperinflation.
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The Holocaust shows what happened when the Western doctrine of racial superiority was taken to its ultimate extreme .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
carry sth too far/to extremes/to excess
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It was funny at first, but you've carried the joke too far.
lurch from one crisis/extreme etc to another
polar opposite/extreme
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CertainIV it should not accommodate its polar opposite.
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Eikmeyer's fundamental insight is that co-operation and non-co-operation are not simply polar opposites along a scale.
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However, the life-cycle savings model is the polar opposite case from pure classical savings.
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In fact the two strains-puritanism and pentecostalism-seem in some way to be nearly polar opposites.
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No such inhibitions stunt the growth of the rag trade at the polar opposite point from the basking Sloanes.
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Strickland was their polar opposite -- an irresponsible teammate and anti-leader.
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The Mark Hateley of suit and silk tie is a polar opposite to the Mark Hateley of shorts and bootlaces.
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When you bring together two polar opposites, the classless one will always drag the other one down.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All these parts interrelate, and it is implausible in the extreme to suppose that their interrelation is fortuitous.
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Either way, climate extremes are expected to increase.
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For children, the world is one of extremes.
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In the extreme , parents can even become physically abusive.
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Plant vaccines take this sort of trickery to an ingenious extreme .
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The junior adventure story has not suffered the same extremes of literary discrimination.