outskirts
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Many are migrant workers, living hand-to-mouth in cramped housing on the city's outskirts.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
Shortly after arriving in Pyongyang, the American evangelist visited a humble thatched hut on the outskirts of Pyongyang where Kim was said to have been born on April 15, 1912.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
Last year, German defence tech firm Helsing opened a factory on the city's outskirts, creating 50 jobs producing unmanned submarine gliders.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
"We’ve kept the animals inside since September 9," said Giorgos Xenitidis, a 59-year-old livestock farmer in the outskirts of Thessaloniki.
From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026
On the days that followed he was seen with a net and a small basket, hunting butterflies on the outskirts of town.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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