edges

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Nearby, dusty sacks of potatoes are piled along the field edges, some loaded onto trucks, others left to sit for weeks, as farmers gamble on prices that rarely improve.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

The Australian dollar edges 0.1% lower to US$0.7159, but is flat at NZ$1.2207, FactSet data show.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

Mantel disagrees, saying Inside Safe and other homeless housing efforts are marginally effective and only “tinkering around the edges of the problem.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

If nocturnes are the center of Ms. Tomes’s book, night music, broadly conceived, is the topic skirting the edges.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

Pop built fires all around the edges of our field, hoping the clouds of smoke would scare the grasshoppers away.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney