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
Taylor and his colleagues found the black hole in observations of the outermost reaches of the universe from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
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Denise Chow, NBC news, 8 Aug. 2025
Of all its technological arrays, CAPERS allows the telescope to observe the outermost edges of space currently possible.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 7 Aug. 2025
They’re housed in an acidic formulation, so as not to disturb the skin’s acid mantle (the outermost layer of the barrier), and deliver unmatched hydration and comfort to skin.
—Deanna Pai, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2025
Metals are held together by metallic bonds, in which the outermost electrons of each atom are free to move around the overall structure of the material.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 July 2023
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Denise Chow, NBC news, 8 Aug. 2025
Of all its technological arrays, CAPERS allows the telescope to observe the outermost edges of space currently possible.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 7 Aug. 2025
They’re housed in an acidic formulation, so as not to disturb the skin’s acid mantle (the outermost layer of the barrier), and deliver unmatched hydration and comfort to skin.
—Deanna Pai, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2025
Metals are held together by metallic bonds, in which the outermost electrons of each atom are free to move around the overall structure of the material.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 July 2023
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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 9 Sep. 2025.
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