fringe
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As well as core events, external the city centre the fringe programme, external will feature more than 90 community events with family-focused gatherings taking place in neighbourhood venues across Belfast.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
And there’s likely a good reason for that: The term is typically only deployed by those comfortable being relegated as fringe, and Lamb seeks broad popularity.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026
“The once habitual ‘big night out’ has become an increasingly fringe activity,” Imogen Willetts writes in “Up All Night,” her lively history of nightclubs through the ages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Ponce and Brizuela were also fringe contributors; they didn’t see any minutes in Brazil 2014.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
The wild duck rests there and the Canada goose, for this is a fringe of the central migratory flyway.
From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford
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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
The film arrives at a time when discussions about unidentified aerial phenomena, government transparency and artificial intelligence have moved from the fringes of popular culture into mainstream debate.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
Hunger drove some to the fringes of human behavior.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
On the fringes of the crowd a tall woman with short cropped hair, a black lace dress, and black open-toed shoes leaned against a beam that had been painted yellow.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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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
Boxy tweed boucle jackets with fringed trims and structured brightly coloured handbags were the order of day, with various materials including lace also on display.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 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 muscle man is a precise physical comedian: With his fringed leather jacket and bleached mane, Momoa’s Garrett looks and acts like the hair-metal version of the Cowardly Lion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2025
And as he had seen horses work, so he was set to work, hauling François on a sled to the forest that fringed the valley, and returning with a load of firewood.
From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London
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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
Black plastic reeds fringing two green, glacial pools.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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