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Recent Examples of bottommost The first leg of the mission appeared to proceed smoothly, with the Falcon 9 using its first-stage booster — the bottommost part of the rocket with nine engines that provide the initial burst of power at liftoff — to propel itself toward space. Jackie Wattles, CNN, 26 July 2024 Waterproof fabric should be the bottommost layer to prevent leakage. Nicole Crawford, Verywell Health, 6 May 2024 State and national park permits, safety inspection stickers, electronic toll collection devices and GPS and navigation systems can legally be mounted or located at the bottommost portion of the windshield, according to the driver's manual. Tim Harlow, Star Tribune, 26 Apr. 2021 MOI is a performance measurement taken at the bottommost moment of the swing, when contact is made, measuring the resistance of the club to being twisted at the moment of impact. Tom Chiarella, Popular Mechanics, 14 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bottommost
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  • The shooting happened the day before the fifth anniversary of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting that killed 17 and is the latest in what has become a deadly new year in the U.S.
    Joey Cappelletti and Mike Householder, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The video is the latest in a lengthy stream of controversies the probation department has faced in recent years.
    James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2023
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  • The think tank also estimated for those in the bottom half of U.S. income brackets, Trump’s tariff proposals would reduce households’ after-tax income by approximately 3.5%.
    Alison Durkee, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
  • The bottom number is called the diastolic blood pressure, which measures the force the blood exerts on the walls of the arteries in between beats.
    Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 21 Jan. 2025
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  • The House passed a bill last year that would have, among other things, required a majority of practicing lawyers on the commission.
    Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 25 Jan. 2025
  • What To Know The East Asian country posted 240,000 births last year, according to preliminary estimates, boosting the country's fertility rate to 0.75 from 0.72 in 2023.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
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  • And ultimately, the Supreme Court overruled those lower court rulings and did declare the embryos as children qualifying under the wrongful death statute.
    Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Lower gas demand amid increasing supply has led to lower pump prices.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2023
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  • The exact cause of the fire, which killed 17 people and destroyed more than 9,000 homes and businesses, remains under investigation, and a final determination could take many months.
    Ivan Penn, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2025
  • There were 18 matches, 64 goals, three hat-tricks and plenty of drama on the final day of the new-look league phase of the Champions League.
    Greg O'Keeffe, The Athletic, 30 Jan. 2025
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  • In the 1920s, a surgeon named Frederick Barrington, of University College London, went looking for the on-off switch in the brainstem, the lowermost part of the brain that connects with the spinal cord.
    Emily Underwood, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 June 2024
  • Reading became difficult: the white of the page took on a wince-inducing glare, and the words frosted over, like the lowermost lines on the optometrist’s eye chart.
    Andrew Leland, The New Yorker, 8 July 2023
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  • If that latter part isn’t healthy, many owners struggle to enable further spending.
    Jeff Rueter, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Those latter two examples are, of course, the same as the scene in Secrets and Lies about Maurice dealing with that guy.
    Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 21 Jan. 2025
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  • Those ticket sales mark one of the lowest hauls to ever claim first place over the MLK holiday stretch.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Those numbers are stunningly low, especially for someone who fights through what some of the best checkers and two-way players around have to offer.
    Daniel Nugent-Bowman, The Athletic, 19 Jan. 2025

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“Bottommost.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bottommost. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.

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