fringe
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On the fringe of the rotation, he said he didn’t let it bother him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Over the past decade, he has transformed the party from a fringe movement into a force in French politics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Until now its members have sat on the right fringe of the state parliament, but ahead of Tuesday's inaugural session it successfully argued that it should now sit in the centre.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
There were handheld American flags on skinny sticks, midsize ones to display on a wall and majestic formal flags adorned with silky gold fringe.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
Nate looks up at the sound of the door creaking open, tosses his fringe of hair out of his eyes.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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Brand was found not guilty by the jury of raping a woman he met at a cabaret show on the fringes of the 1999 Labour Party conference in Bournemouth.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
Russian forces have edged close to the city's eastern fringes, which has prompted calls for the civilians who remain to relocate to safer regions of Ukraine.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Heder remains interested in stories about outsiders, about class and people generally ignored by or on the fringes of society.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Instead of hanging around the fringes of the NFL, Wright walked away from the pros—to go back to the college game.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Ignatius pushed through the battalion loitering benignly on the fringes of the scene toward the desk of the office manager.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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Other tour boats skate around the limestone coast fringed with wind-blasted greenery.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Woven baskets, checkered blankets, fringed umbrellas and trimmed napkins prove picnic classics never go out of style.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
Carrying loved ones and a handful of quickly snatched belongings, families trekked along narrow paths slick with mud and fringed by dense greenery, heading to relative safety.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2025
A classic grazing meadow, fringed by beech trees.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025
Kate looked into the open mouth, then went to the nut bowl on the fringed table for a nut pick.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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Sat behind a fringing machine at the mill, Hyslop, 28, deftly ran a dark cashmere fabric destined for a Spanish luxury brand through its frame, twisting the ends of the cloth into fringes.
From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026
The double-sided style is finished with chunky fringing and, even better, large rectangular pockets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2025
The world's largest fringing reef and another of Australia's Unesco World Heritage Sites, it is home to a lush oceanic forest that spreads out along the coast for hundreds of kilometres.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2025
After 10 days underway from New Zealand, the Araon reached the sea ice fringing Antarctica.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 18, 2024
Then they turned south again, following a dirt road through open woods and into a marshy area fringing Lake Washington.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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