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- adjective
superlative form ofdire : mostdire .
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Examples
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These data don't even include people who are in the direst situations: Those who have lost their jobs, stopped contributing to 401(k) plans or shifted to jobs without 401(k) plans.
Retiring Boomers Find 401(k) Plans Fall Short E.S. Browning 2011
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Take comfort in the fact that the direst of climate change predictions suggest that dramatic events may drasticly reduce the number of hominids inhabiting the third planet from the Sun.
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______ Your overwrought prose would be well-suited to the direst contraindication leaflets of the pharmaceutical industry, protecting wealthy corporations from liability whilst sparing the reading public at large from your exhausting melodrama.
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Cockspur, stopped there every ten weeks; but the direst threat
CHAPTER III 2010
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Like today, the direst political oppositions devolved on the economy, and on proper uses of public and private finance.
William Hogeland: Economic Conflicts of the Founding Era Dispel Tea Party Myths... and Liberal Ones, Too William Hogeland 2011
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Israel could become a liability even to the United States, which would have the direst consequences imaginable.
Alon Ben-Meir: Israel's False Sense of Invincibility Alon Ben-Meir 2010
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It is a medal that was given to a a soldier that # 1 disobeyed a direst order or command, put their Platoon, Unit, Command and or
Dave M Murphy 2010
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Above all else, the film is an ode to the families we choose deliberately, and to the potential for love and connection in the direst of circumstances.
MIND MELD: Anime Film Favorites (+ The Top 14 Anime Films of All Time!) 2010
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Israel could become a liability even to the United States, which would have the direst consequences imaginable.
Alon Ben-Meir: Israel's False Sense of Invincibility Alon Ben-Meir 2010
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"Fundamental support for oil prices suggest that further downside is limited in all but the direst of situations," analysts at J.P. Morgan said in a research report.
Equity Rally Sends Crude Futures Higher Dan Strumpf 2011
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