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

BCC begins with abnormal growth of basal cells, which produce new skin cells when old ones die, on the outermost layer of the skin.

From Salon • Sep. 2, 2025

The difference between the speed of the fast and slow solar wind is thought to be due to the different areas of the Sun's corona, the outermost layer of its atmosphere, that they originate from.

From Science Daily • May 28, 2024

With five Euclidean solids to play with, and one sphere inside the innermost solid as well as one outside the outermost solid, this defined six spheres—one for each of the orbits of the planets.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin