fringe
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Normally few people if any vote for these fringe candidates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
But this is a viable media enterprise that I’m really interested in for the sake of comedy and the opportunity for outsider or fringe comedy.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026
Switzerland’s unique model of “direct democracy” allows for proposals to be put forward through a referendum, which means fringe issues come forward more regularly than they do in other countries.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
YSL did this collection a couple seasons ago with socks with fringe on them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
When everybody is finally settled, a balding man with a fringe of white hair comes onstage to stand behind a podium.
From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein
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In “Self-Portrait With Necklace,” a string of blue jadestones rests on Kahlo’s bare neck, above the fringes of a lace blouse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
His BBC documentary series sees him travel to the world's most dangerous places, interviewing young men who live on the fringes of society.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
Each personal history is sketched with a revealing touch: Robbie, returned from war, had “loitered, not entirely fruitlessly, on the fringes of the London literary world, until coming to Honor via a family connection.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
We’re seeing the fringes of electronic music rise, and very heavy rock music rise.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 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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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
The modest white stucco building was fringed with dead grass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2025
Dean and Bychkova stepped out in sparkly fringed outfits, but Bychkova suffered a wardrobe malfunction causing her to stumble slightly.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2024
Huge icicles fringed the entrance and the roof.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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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
The Mlothi was on the veld fringing Alexandra to the east, about half a mile from where we lived.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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