outmost

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"We will do our outmost to bring all stranded people back before Christmas."

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2022

Group 17 elements, including fluorine and chlorine, have seven electrons in their outmost shells, so they tend to fill this shell with an electron from other atoms or molecules, making them negatively charged ions.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

And far out in the Pacific, 1,242 miles west of Kodiak, is the Navy's outmost listening post, Kiska Island, which can be used as an advance base for U. S. Navy operations.

From Time Magazine Archive

The new boom has already wiped outmost vestiges of the deep downturn that hit the industry about the time of the Arab oil embargo in late 1973.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her grandfather, Robert Darling, had been keeper of the coal-light on the outmost of the Farne Islands, and her father, William, succeeded him in that post.

From Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages by Various