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
He was heading to a state facility where Hassan had an office, in an area called Tahouneh on the outskirts of Damascus, according to several sources.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
The fire started near a school in the Bagira district on the city's northern outskirts early on Thursday "while the children were in the middle of class", local leader Patrice Buduge told AFP.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
We slipped into our new clothes in the dressing room of a quiet little dress shop on the outskirts of Monclova.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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