as in highest
being at a point or level higher than all others
the uppermost floor of the house gets very hot in the summer
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Recent Examples of uppermost
Her record won’t be matched for some time, as the runners-up – Drake and Mariah Carey – are steady with their 24 placements inside the uppermost tier.
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Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
Slow-attack tones emerge and are subsumed back within the haze, like single strands of a spiderweb zooming in and out of focus; the uppermost reaches are suffused in a delicate scrim of what sounds like electronic crickets.
—Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 14 Jan. 2026
But the uppermost part is constructed of sheets of metal mesh, allowing light to stream down from above, all the way to the main floor.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 14 Dec. 2025
In fact, arrays of multiple satellites that are in orbit around Earth and are sensitive to extremely small distance differences induced between those spacecraft have been used to track how density fluctuations change in the uppermost layers of Earth’s surface.
—Big Think, 14 Nov. 2025
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Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
Slow-attack tones emerge and are subsumed back within the haze, like single strands of a spiderweb zooming in and out of focus; the uppermost reaches are suffused in a delicate scrim of what sounds like electronic crickets.
—Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 14 Jan. 2026
But the uppermost part is constructed of sheets of metal mesh, allowing light to stream down from above, all the way to the main floor.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 14 Dec. 2025
In fact, arrays of multiple satellites that are in orbit around Earth and are sensitive to extremely small distance differences induced between those spacecraft have been used to track how density fluctuations change in the uppermost layers of Earth’s surface.
—Big Think, 14 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uppermost
Adjective
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Iran’s top clerics are still working to choose a successor to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed by the US-Israel strikes on Saturday.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
5 Mar. 2026
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List prices for Lilly's weight loss and diabetes treatments, Zepbound and Mounjaro, top $1,000 per month.—
Annika Kim Constantino,
CNBC,
5 Mar. 2026
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There’s a ladies’ and a gentlemen’s flanking the stairwell on this upper entry level, each outfitted with a cold plunge, sauna, steam room, and showers inside and out.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
4 Mar. 2026
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Users can choose the party by the dropdown in the upper lefthand corner.—
Rachel Royster
Updated March 3,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 Mar. 2026
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“Uppermost.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uppermost. Accessed 7 Mar. 2026.
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