innermost

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Recent Examples of innermost Kansas City Chiefs special teams coordinator Dave Toub — perhaps more than any other coach on staff — is not afraid to share his innermost thoughts during interviews. Jesse Newell, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026 Your interest in their experiences, troubles, and innermost dreams is true. Talia Argondezzi, New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2026 His primary qualification for infiltrating the innermost sanctums of Trumpworld would seem to be a vast capacity for cozying up to friends of the Donald. Chris Lee, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026 Home represents the essence of our innermost memories. Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 21 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for innermost
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Adjective
  • Except, unfortunately, the poet’s inmost workings: even in this nearly comprehensive version of his life, Tennyson remains an elusive figure, his own depths signalled but unsounded.
    Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • In that long process of observation and recordkeeping, something else happened too: Eclipses helped compel humans to both develop and reveal our inmost capacity for a new and precise kind of reasoning that could be applied to the world.
    Adam Frank, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2024
Adjective
  • People who dislike Minnelli’s singing maintain that her outer bombast conceals an inner void.
    Matt Weinstock, New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2026
  • But when John's cousin Michaela (Masali Baduza) returns to London to tend to the Kilmartin estate, Fran's complicated feelings will have her questioning whether to stick to her pragmatic intentions or pursue her inner passions.
    Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 24 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • The department also pointed to internal FBI notes showing agents had planned to close out the investigation weeks before interviewing Flynn about Kislyak.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Marquez-Garrett, a member of the plaintiffs’ steering committee overseeing the thousands of claims consolidated in Los Angeles County, said upcoming bellwether trials are expected to reveal additional internal communications the companies sought to keep private.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026

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“Innermost.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/innermost. Accessed 28 Mar. 2026.

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