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

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 course at Griinau was six lanes wide, but the outermost two lanes—lanes five and six—were so exposed to the prevailing winds on the Langer See that they were at times all but unrowable.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown