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
Any celestial body found beyond the orbit of Neptune – our solar system's outermost planet – is considered a trans-Neptunian object.
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Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 6 May 2026
From 1929 until 2006, Pluto lived in the imagination of children and adults alike as the ninth and outermost planet in our solar system.
—Big Think, 30 Apr. 2026
Lawmakers, event attendees and some allies of the president saw fault in the correspondents’ dinner security planning, questioning why someone like the shooter could reserve a room at the hotel to sneak in weapons around the outermost layer of security.
—ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026
These observations suggest that small, mysterious moons with surprisingly different natures are the source of the particles that make up the two outermost rings, and that there are probably even more undiscovered moons to add to the 29 already known around Uranus.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 22 Apr. 2026
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Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 6 May 2026
From 1929 until 2006, Pluto lived in the imagination of children and adults alike as the ninth and outermost planet in our solar system.
—Big Think, 30 Apr. 2026
Lawmakers, event attendees and some allies of the president saw fault in the correspondents’ dinner security planning, questioning why someone like the shooter could reserve a room at the hotel to sneak in weapons around the outermost layer of security.
—ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026
These observations suggest that small, mysterious moons with surprisingly different natures are the source of the particles that make up the two outermost rings, and that there are probably even more undiscovered moons to add to the 29 already known around Uranus.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 22 Apr. 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 24 Jun. 2026.
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