outskirts
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"Our house was underwater for about 30 hours," office worker Kosin Nilset, who lives along the Premprachakorn canal on the outskirts of the capital, told AFP on Sunday morning.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
Marset hails from a neighborhood on the outskirts of Uruguay’s capital, Montevideo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Dangote's sprawling refinery on the outskirts of Lagos, which began operating two years ago and now processes around 700,000 barrels of crude a day, has transformed the fortunes of Nigeria's oil sector.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
On the outskirts of the capital, Palma, some locals who can no longer afford an apartment live in sprawling communities of camper vans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
An hour out of the basement, Fang and I trudged along the dark corridor of road cutting through the wetlands park on the outskirts of town.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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