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The innermost rim formed later, when a mountain at the crater’s center collapsed.
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Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2026
The scientists found the three innermost stars are more massive and hotter than the sun, while the outermost component, the fourth star, is cooler, less massive and thus similar to the sun.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 3 Mar. 2026
By then, Israeli intelligence had planted a bomb in a Revolutionary Guards guest house that, in addition to killing the political leader of Hamas in Gaza, also demonstrated its ability to penetrate the innermost sanctums of the Iranian regime.
—Richard Hall, Time, 28 Feb. 2026
In a total lunar eclipse, the entire moon moves into the innermost part of the planet's shadow and blocks it completely from the sun, NASA says.
—Cailey Gleeson, jsonline.com, 27 Feb. 2026
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Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2026
The scientists found the three innermost stars are more massive and hotter than the sun, while the outermost component, the fourth star, is cooler, less massive and thus similar to the sun.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 3 Mar. 2026
By then, Israeli intelligence had planted a bomb in a Revolutionary Guards guest house that, in addition to killing the political leader of Hamas in Gaza, also demonstrated its ability to penetrate the innermost sanctums of the Iranian regime.
—Richard Hall, Time, 28 Feb. 2026
In a total lunar eclipse, the entire moon moves into the innermost part of the planet's shadow and blocks it completely from the sun, NASA says.
—Cailey Gleeson, jsonline.com, 27 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for innermost
Adjective
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Except, unfortunately, the poet’s inmost workings: even in this nearly comprehensive version of his life, Tennyson remains an elusive figure, his own depths signalled but unsounded.—
Kathryn Schulz,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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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
Adjective
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Ephemera is so often illustrative of the inner life of a character, a direct, beating correlative of the contents of their hearts.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
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Through her song, her voice awakens and becomes a vehicle for expressing her desires out loud, allowing her inner needs to emerge fully into the outside world.—
JD Linville,
Variety,
19 May 2026
Adjective
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Saum Poorsaleh, complaints triggered the internal affairs investigation.—
Karen Kucher,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 May 2026
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Liberal influencers are publicly questioning Martin's refusal to release an internal report on the party's failures.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
13 May 2026
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“Innermost.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/innermost. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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