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
To do so requires staring at the star for long periods of time as each planet completes an orbit, up to about 19 days for the outermost planet, and crosses in front of the star relative to us.
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Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2025
These collisions would have carved out some of the outermost layer of the wannabe planets.
—Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2025
In many workplaces, the fleece vest has effectively toppled the sport jacket as the outermost layer of choice.
—Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 8 Sep. 2025
Although the Sun creates gamma-rays in its core — where nuclear fusion reactions occur — those gamma-rays typically bounce around for more than 100,000 years before making it to the Sun’s outermost layers.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 4 Sep. 2025
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Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2025
These collisions would have carved out some of the outermost layer of the wannabe planets.
—Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2025
In many workplaces, the fleece vest has effectively toppled the sport jacket as the outermost layer of choice.
—Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 8 Sep. 2025
Although the Sun creates gamma-rays in its core — where nuclear fusion reactions occur — those gamma-rays typically bounce around for more than 100,000 years before making it to the Sun’s outermost layers.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 4 Sep. 2025
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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 7 Oct. 2025.
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