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
Oh, there’s the senator,’” Sullivan, a former elementary-school teacher, said in his workshop on the outskirts of this island fishing village.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Grandma lived and worked on the outskirts of Atlanta, but she would stay with them at least one weekend every month.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
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