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
These outermost layers are held together by microscopic hooks, making sea otter coats essentially waterproof.
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Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 Apr. 2026
Most people never get to experience a total solar eclipse, when the moon blots out the disk of the sun and reveals its fiery outermost atmospheric layer, or corona.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2026
Keep the application away from the center trunk and sprinkle it on the ground around the drip line or the outermost branches.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 28 Feb. 2026
The outermost layer of African elephant skin, the epidermis, was known to be stiff, dry, and thick because elephants don’t shed dead skin cells.
—Clare Watson, Quanta Magazine, 27 Feb. 2026
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Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 Apr. 2026
Most people never get to experience a total solar eclipse, when the moon blots out the disk of the sun and reveals its fiery outermost atmospheric layer, or corona.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2026
Keep the application away from the center trunk and sprinkle it on the ground around the drip line or the outermost branches.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 28 Feb. 2026
The outermost layer of African elephant skin, the epidermis, was known to be stiff, dry, and thick because elephants don’t shed dead skin cells.
—Clare Watson, Quanta Magazine, 27 Feb. 2026
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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 14 May. 2026.
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