"in extremis" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2018 December 13, Edmund Richardson, Classics in Extremis: The Edges of Classical Reception, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 116",
          "text": "Military records describing the deaths of men as a result of injuries sustained during combat employed the phrase in a (now near-obsolete) sense to describe a man on the verge of dying: […] 'He was in extremis when seen and died about 2 hours after the action ceased at 9 pm'.",
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          "text": "The purpose, of course, was to find out if the prisoner, in extremis, broke down and wrote to a family in Israel.",
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          "ref": "2011, Michael Lavalette, Vasilios Ioakimidis, Social Work in Extremis: Lessons for Social Work Internationally, Policy Press, page 1",
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        "(by extension) In desperate circumstances."
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "at the point of death",
      "word": "henkitoreissa"
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      "sense": "at the point of death",
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      "sense": "at the point of death",
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "in desperate circumstances",
      "word": "hätätapauksessa"
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      "sense": "in desperate circumstances",
      "word": "in extremis"
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      "sense": "in desperate circumstances",
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