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Recent Examples of innermost
In the innermost layer of the heart of darkness in Apocalypse Now resides Colonel Kurtz.
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Paul Fitzgerald, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2025
In a total lunar eclipse, the entire moon moves into the innermost and darkest part of Earth’s shadow, called the umbra, completely blocking it from the sun, according to NASA.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025
The Downside of Brutal Honesty The bottom line, says Vernon, is that brutal honesty helps a friendship when your innermost motivation is concern for the person to whom the honesty is directed.
—Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2025
The outermost planet takes less than seven days to complete one orbit, while the innermost planet has an orbital period of less than three days, Basant said.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 Mar. 2025
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Paul Fitzgerald, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2025
In a total lunar eclipse, the entire moon moves into the innermost and darkest part of Earth’s shadow, called the umbra, completely blocking it from the sun, according to NASA.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025
The Downside of Brutal Honesty The bottom line, says Vernon, is that brutal honesty helps a friendship when your innermost motivation is concern for the person to whom the honesty is directed.
—Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2025
The outermost planet takes less than seven days to complete one orbit, while the innermost planet has an orbital period of less than three days, Basant said.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for innermost
Adjective
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In that long process of observation and recordkeeping, something else happened too: Eclipses helped compel humans to both develop and reveal our inmost capacity for a new and precise kind of reasoning that could be applied to the world.—
Adam Frank,
The Atlantic,
1 Apr. 2024
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Wallace slowly unravels the fascinating — and ultimately tragic — story of a man who, though very close to Wallace, somehow kept his inmost self hidden in plain sight.—
Joan Frank,
Washington Post,
13 Apr. 2023
Adjective
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Your quiet inner knowing is on its way to becoming a steady source of helpful wisdom.—
Colin Bedell,
Them.,
25 Apr. 2025
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Its design has changed little since then, still incorporating an inner surface that sits at a 60- to 90-degree angle relative to the user's urine stream.—
Ben Coxworth,
New Atlas,
25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Your bottom line will look robust, but no internal deception goes unpublished.—
Rob Davis,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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His goal has not been met of finding $1 trillion in federal savings from waste, fraud and abuse. Veterans Affairs Department: A new internal task force at the mammoth department wants employees to report anti-Christian bias among coworkers going back to the Biden administration.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
24 Apr. 2025
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“Innermost.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/innermost. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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