How to Use in extremis in a Sentence
in extremis
adverb- They are helping a family in extremis.
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Archival D&G pieces from the ’80s and ’90s are popular at the moment; the sacred and the profane resonate in a world in extremis.
—Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 10 July 2022
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After the Appalachian Trail, which was indeed one long booze cruise, my body and brain hurt in extremis for months.
—Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 30 Dec. 2022
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This is a classic Schrader study of the male soul in extremis, seen with a bracing new clarity.
—Justin Chang, latimes.com, 17 May 2018
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And if that is still not enough, Democrats in extremis may concede that Mueller could retire with his minor scalps, and both sides then could call it quits, even-steven.
—Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 13 Feb. 2018
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They were all women trained to deal with human beings in extremis.
—Belinda Luscombe, Time, 9 Jan. 2020
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The dogwood out back is curling up, the azaleas are in extremis, and the maple leaves are brown-tinged with environmental stress.
—Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2019
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Two days later, the patient’s daughter calls; her father is in extremis.
—Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2020
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And that means determining how to help host-nation forces without having to put our troops on the front lines, except in extremis.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2021
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But the Darién Gap is the global migration story in extremis.
—Jason Motlagh, Outside Online, 19 July 2016
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Iran may in extremis also stage terrorist attacks in Europe and the U.S.
—Victor Davis Hanson, The Mercury News, 20 June 2019
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This work led to the first sophisticated 2-D model of a giant star in extremis — and this time, the model star exploded.
—Dolly Setton, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2014
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But even in extremis, the antimask brigade were fully committed to their rejection of science, and of the common good.
—Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2021
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Nor drinking, either: the 6.2-liter pushrod V8 is fitted with dual fuel systems to pump more gas into the cylinders in extremis.
—Dan Neil, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2018
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Here, a cruise story (in extremis) that relates these unique dynamics.
—Jack Fowler, National Review, 30 Apr. 2021
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This, though, would be a nuclear option: one that America is likely to take only in extremis.
—The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
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Scarcity is also context dependent, in a desert, where water is scarce, no amount of gold nor bitcoin can buy water in extremis.
—Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 29 Aug. 2021
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On the left side of the screen Zama lies, in extremis, in the bottom of a canoe, while the right side of the screen is occupied by a vertical ribbon of vividly green vegetation as the boat slips through a mangrove swamp.
—WSJ, 26 Apr. 2018
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Unbeknownst to its citizens and the world at large, the Soviet Union in 1986 was in extremis, poised for a collapse that would come only five years after the Chernobyl disaster.
—Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2019
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The result would be no mere picture but a trove of pixels against which to test our ideas about gravity, relativity and the behavior of matter in extremis.
—Alan Hirshfeld, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
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Thirteen Lives reminds me of Ron Howard's Apollo 13 for its bristly character moments, people caught in extremis.
—Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 6 Aug. 2022
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Maybe one in which a man is imprisoned in a bedroom where he is forced to work, in extremis, while constantly worrying that the creature randomly killing people in the outside world might wind up killing him?
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2022
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Second place in that category goes to general surgeons, who may reasonably be in a hurry to get to a patient in extremis.
—Steve Mirsky, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2020
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For a period of two years, the customary ban was lifted for museums that found themselves in extremis, unable to care for their collections.
—Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2021
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Twice normal, a pulse of 180 usually signifies a patient in extremis.
—Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2020
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But even in extremis, business leaders might want to consider whether a layoff is truly unavoidable.
—Bygeoff Colvin, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2023
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The grand design of this more than 7½-hour work is revealed only through the gradual movement of the minds of the characters, who are flailing in extremis for a path out of abandonment, betrayal, bad faith and overwhelming terror.
—Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 29 May 2018
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Who would deny people in extremis the opportunity to conclude their lives without pain?
—Kyle Smith, National Review, 13 Mar. 2020
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Under the wrong conditions transformers can become less efficient or even, in extremis, blow up.
—The Economist, 4 June 2020
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Fortunately, the show doesn’t leave its characters (or the audience) in extremis but comes back around with a hopeful moral: Facing reality hurts a lot but is the only path to forgiveness.
—Margaret Gray, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2022
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