outermost

Example Sentences

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Past conflicts—due largely to a considerable lag between U.S. doctrine and technology—began with the outermost defensive ring and painfully worked toward the innermost ring of the capital, he wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

That’s when the star goes supernova, which we can detect as soon as the bounced off material breaks through the star's outermost layer — we call this the shock breakout.

From Space Scoop • Nov. 28, 2025

Greenland’s forbidding environment, at the outermost boundary of the European and North American world, have long made it one of the strangest places on earth.

From Salon • Dec. 29, 2024

In a paper appearing in Nature, researchers at MIT, the University of Edinburgh, and elsewhere find that the sun's magnetic field could arise from instabilities within the sun's outermost layers.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2024

Between the flinty crests of the two outermost escarpments of the Outer Range runs an east-west trough, maybe five miles across, carpeted in a boggy amalgam of muskeg, alder thickets, and veins of scrawny spruce.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer