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as in highest
being at a point or level higher than all others
his kite got tangled in the topmost branches of the tree
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Recent Examples of topmost
People will even be willing to switch back-and-forth between the topmost general-purpose AI and a particular best-in-class domain-specific AI that befits their needs.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
Quite many sub-ordinated goals might go into attaining the topmost goal.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
Far above, and many miles away, a thin strip of white cloaked the topmost pinnacles of Mogollon Baldy — all that remained of the season’s first snow.
—Percy Brown, Outdoor Life, 26 Mar. 2025
Just five months earlier, Gaber, an animal chiropractor, had run her hands along Bear’s fur, adjusting the animal’s atlas vertebrae, the topmost vertebrae in the cervical spine.
—Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
Quite many sub-ordinated goals might go into attaining the topmost goal.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
Far above, and many miles away, a thin strip of white cloaked the topmost pinnacles of Mogollon Baldy — all that remained of the season’s first snow.
—Percy Brown, Outdoor Life, 26 Mar. 2025
Just five months earlier, Gaber, an animal chiropractor, had run her hands along Bear’s fur, adjusting the animal’s atlas vertebrae, the topmost vertebrae in the cervical spine.
—Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for topmost
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Prime Deal Day top sellers These are some of the top sellers of Prime Day 2025.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
11 July 2025
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He initially wasn’t selected as an AL reserve despite being one of the top relievers in the league.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
11 July 2025
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The strategy is critically needed, and is of utmost urgency in Central Florida, which saw 439 fatal childhood drownings over the past 15 years (2009-2024) — the most recorded in any of the state’s six regions, according to Florida DCF.—
Karen Cohn,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 July 2025
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Just like with physical health, these results are treated with the utmost transparency.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
6 July 2025
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Headquartered in Elche, Spain, PLD Space celebrated its first suborbital launch in October 2023, when the company shot a test rocket into the upper atmosphere from southern Spain in a demonstration of the propulsion technology to be used on its orbital rocket, the partially reusable Miura 5.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
9 July 2025
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Now legacy media look like minnows compared with Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Apple’s Tim Cook, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Alphabet’s Sundar Pichai, all of whom will be at Sun Valley, rocking their sweater vests and enjoying the view from the upper echelons of power.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
9 July 2025
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“Topmost.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/topmost. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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