farthermost

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By week's end the alarm had spread to the farthermost corners of the Soviet empire.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the light we see today left the farthermost quasars, the earth and the solar system had not yet been born.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though they resemble ordinary stars when viewed through optical telescopes, they are billions of lightyears* away, the farthermost objects in the observable universe.

From Time Magazine Archive

All we can really say is that if the universe is 10 billion years old, then light from the farthermost quasars has been on the way to us for more than 8 billion years.

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Then, having momentarily paused to cast a contemptuous eye over the lad’s neat attire, he threw himself on the floor in the farthermost corner of the room, and promptly fell fast asleep.

From The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity by Coombs, Francis Lovell