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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a pretty extreme" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is significantly intense or severe in nature.
Example: "The weather conditions were a pretty extreme challenge for the hikers."
Alternatives: "quite extreme" or "fairly extreme".
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"That's a pretty extreme measure even from our end.
"The A's are a pretty extreme case," Sullivan added.
What Ofcom is proposing is a pretty extreme intervention.
For someone who has never been camping, Burning Man seems like a pretty extreme experience.
"Not to be melodramatic, but that sounds like a pretty extreme journey.
It's a pretty extreme line, but we live in extreme times.
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Fathering a child with a slave is pretty extreme, too, but then we all remember what Karl Rove et al. did to John McCain in South Carolina, with the push-polling phone campaign suggesting he had fathered a "colored" baby out of wedlock.
"This very much amongst Labour voters is going to be a test of: does Corbyn connect outside of north London and a very narrow, pretty extreme leftwing group of people?
It has a few other pretty extreme views, too.
I was torn between offending a very nice lady who'd agreed to let me interview a jihadist in her front room by also leaving mine to melt, or eating it and rubbing it in the face of a man with a gun and some pretty extreme views about women, the West and sedition.
"It's an illustration of pretty extreme grass-roots politics," he said of his film's message, "that you can do it".
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