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utmost | American Dictionary

utmost
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈʌtˌmoʊst/
greatest or most or farthest:
Speed was of the utmost importance.
utmost
noun[ U ]
us/ˈʌt·moʊst/
the most or best that is possible:
He’s doing his utmost to disrupt the proceedings.

Examples of utmost

utmost
Prompt diagnosis and treatment with appropriate antimicrobial chemotherapy is of the utmost importance in reducing the morbidity and mortality associated with sepsis.
A confidence rating was used instead of a vocabulary test because familiarity with the word's pronunciation was of utmost importance.
The most common response, perhaps, is to link these models of religion to a transcendent being, set of beings, or ordering principle of utmost importance.
The question of utmost importance is whether threat simulation during dreaming increases the probability of coping successfully with comparable real threats.
His mind was exerted to the utmost at every moment, squandering all his energy.
However, because only very small quantities are produced at a time, maximum sample recovery is of utmost importance.
In pervasive computing, the physical context is of the utmost importance.
Getting medical aid to the affected individuals is also of utmost importance.
However, the fundamental directions that his work took were of the utmost importance for succeeding thinkers.
At the same time, the book underlines the issue of the effectiveness of intervention practices, which should be of the utmost interest to clinicians.
Transparency in the selection process is of utmost importance as generalizability/transferability to other settings will be highly context-dependent.
The detailed power of the molecular analysis challenged the old concepts by confronting them to the utmost.
Moral questions have been of utmost importance in the public debate, whereas questions of efficiency have dominated the audits.
Open caregiver-patient communication is, therefore, of utmost importance.
They result from the fact that what is of utmost importance for each of them is hidden in the familiar and trivial.
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