as in farthest
most distant from a center
the outermost ring of listeners had trouble hearing the concert
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Recent Examples of outermost
The outermost layer acts as a protective surface similar to human epidermis.
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Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 Dec. 2025
Use the tines of the fork to gently but firmly scrape the outermost layer of the lemon.
—Stacey Lastoe, Southern Living, 23 Dec. 2025
Typically, what is layered below the oceanic crust is a rigid upper mantle -- the outermost rocky shell.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 15 Dec. 2025
This happens because surface tension is just the tendency of the outermost molecules in a fluid to be drawn inward by neighboring molecules.
—Anna Demming, Wired News, 16 Nov. 2025
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Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 Dec. 2025
Use the tines of the fork to gently but firmly scrape the outermost layer of the lemon.
—Stacey Lastoe, Southern Living, 23 Dec. 2025
Typically, what is layered below the oceanic crust is a rigid upper mantle -- the outermost rocky shell.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 15 Dec. 2025
This happens because surface tension is just the tendency of the outermost molecules in a fluid to be drawn inward by neighboring molecules.
—Anna Demming, Wired News, 16 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for outermost
Recent Examples of Synonyms for outermost
farthest
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That's close to the farthest point in its orbit, which is 252,088 miles away, according to NASA.—
Mike Snider,
USA TODAY,
12 Jan. 2023
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At its farthest, the capsule was more than 268,000 miles from Earth.—
Marcia Dunn,
The Christian Science Monitor,
12 Dec. 2022
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“Outermost.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outermost. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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