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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
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • Messi got things started again on Tuesday at the 19-minute mark with a sublime left-footed volley to the bottom right corner off an assist from his trusty friend and former Barcelona teammate Luis Suarez.
    Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The team was rated in the bottom three for seven of the 11 categories, and last in two of them – locker room and training room.
    Ben Morse, CNN, 26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Two dogs that mauled a 73-year-old woman in Idaho last year had cocaine in their systems, according to pathology reports obtained this week by the Cincinnati Enquirer, part of the USA TODAY Network.
    Laura A. Bischoff, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2025
  • The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau had about 1,700 employees late last year.
    Matt Sedensky, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
Adjective
  • This adds a fair bit of context to the discussion of whether the Canucks stood in Hughes’ way, in terms of joining Team USA for the final on Thursday.
    Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 22 Feb. 2025
  • The prequel series was renewed for its second and final season in February 2023.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
Adjective
  • The most famous of these latter skits occurred in 2016, when Tom Hanks appeared.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Getting to enjoy this trajectory from turmoil, a lot of success but a lot of turmoil, a lot of loneliness to his latter day serenity that Elton has now as a husband and a dad.
    Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Even though the amount of each check is lower, investing it in the stock market, which averages an annual return of 10%, could make up for that loss and more.
    Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Research has found that people who regularly practice mindfulness generally experience less stress and lower levels of cortisol.
    Julia Ries, SELF, 24 Feb. 2025

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“Bottommost.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bottommost. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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