Extreme
Extreme adjective - Most distant from a center.
In the wake of and extreme are semantically related. In some cases you can use "In the wake of" instead an adjective "Extreme".
In the wake of
Extreme and in the wake of are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Extreme" instead an adjective phrase "In the wake of".
Both terms in one sentence
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Black Hawk Down is an extreme example which took advantage of the environment of fear and anger in America and the West in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
Source: Artistic License History -
Rorschach's voice is about the most extreme Private Eye Monologue you can imagine, especially as this movie was made in the wake of The Dark Knight and talk of Christian Bale's absurdly low and scratchy Batman voice.
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Alien Invasion: A common theme throughout the films, but DOTM cranks it up to to its logical extreme: massive destruction, innocents being slaughtered by Decepticons, and the US declaring a state of national emergency in the wake of the Decepticons' all-out attack on the planet.
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