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- adjective
superlative form ofstark : moststark .
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Examples
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This approach to matters religious stood in starkest contrast with that across the border in Wasabia.
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This approach to matters religious stood in starkest contrast with that across the border in Wasabia.
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Thou art called the starkest rider of the Spanish cur's array
The Bon Gaultier Ballads Theodore Martin 1862
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The starkest message was sent by the bombing of the Haqqani bases in Pakistan within 36 hours of the assault in Kabul on the Intercontinental Hotel.
Michael Brenner: Panetta's Grand Tour Michael Brenner 2011
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It is in taking this line that the myth of the "mancession" most clearly links up to a larger narrative that, in its starkest expressions, presents a story of female ascendancy and male decline.
Alice O'Connor: The Myth of the Mancession? Women & the Jobs Crisis -- Fact, Fiction, and Female Unemployment Alice O 2010
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There are two more Maple stories, "Eros Rampant" and "Sublimating," which cast these themes in the starkest relief, but most of the other stories as well work, to the extent they do work, to sketch a collective image of midcentury family life in suburban America.
Updike, John 2010
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Roddick, in the starkest possible contrast, broke Hanescu's first service games in the first and second sets, earning a lead he never looked like relinquishing.
Wimbledon 2011: Andy Roddick turns on power against Victor Hanescu 2011
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Burnham said: This 49% plan is the starkest sign yet of how the character of our NHS will change if Andrew Lansley's bill gets through.
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It is in taking this line that the myth of the "mancession" most clearly links up to a larger narrative that, in its starkest expressions, presents a story of female ascendancy and male decline.
Alice O'Connor: The Myth of the Mancession? Women & the Jobs Crisis -- Fact, Fiction, and Female Unemployment Alice O'Connor 2010
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Enraged by dissent that they believe has gone unchecked for decades, and unafraid to say so in the starkest language, these activists are naming names and unsettling the church.
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