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
According to Hawakawa, this description has been historically associated with a solar corona — the outermost layer of the sun, which peaks out around the edges of the moon as the moon passes between the Earth and sun during an eclipse.
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Julian Dossett, Space.com, 5 Dec. 2025
The tree came with helpful instructions that guided you to fluff from the interior branches out the outermost branches.
—Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 20 Oct. 2025
The outermost atmospheric layer of the solar system’s gas giants is typically filled with light elements such as hydrogen and helium.
—Nola Taylor Tillman, Scientific American, 13 Oct. 2025
This happens because surface tension is just the tendency of the outermost molecules in a fluid to be drawn inward by neighboring molecules.
—Anna Demming, Quanta Magazine, 10 Oct. 2025
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farthest
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That's close to the farthest point in its orbit, which is 252,088 miles away, according to NASA.—
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At its farthest, the capsule was more than 268,000 miles from Earth.—
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“Outermost.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outermost. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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