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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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Then, as an adult, Bruce started reading books on somatic therapy and the inner child.—
Charles Trepany,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
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For as much as her life has changed in the past year, her inner-circle has remained the same, for the most part.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
28 Apr. 2026
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The 90% problem But aggregate productivity numbers obscure a brutal internal sorting that is already underway inside companies.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
29 Apr. 2026
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The new controversy comes at a moment when the region is already grappling with internal divisions.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Innermost.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/innermost. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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