outermost

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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

The two outermost moons, Ganymede and Callisto, are composed of about 50% water ice but likely contain rocky cores rich in elements such as carbon or silicon.

From Science Daily • Oct. 29, 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

The outermost sphere carried the so-called fixed stars, which always stay in the same positions relative to each other but which rotate together across the sky.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking