outskirts
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At Craven Cattle Mart on the outskirts of Skipton, North Yorkshire, the auction ring is buzzing as farmers from across the Yorkshire Dales and Pennine Moors come to buy and sell livestock.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
When recruitment firm Acorn by Synergie first moved into their offices on the outskirts of Newport in 2003, they were producing six large wheelie bins' worth of rubbish a week.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Soldiers took the Journal through a sprawling tunnel in the outskirts of Shuja’iyya that they said had been discovered eight months ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Marset hails from a neighborhood on the outskirts of Uruguay’s capital, Montevideo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
When my father’s business had failed, we had traded our comfortable house in the center of the Jewish quarter for a wattle-and-daub cottage on our neighborhood’s outskirts.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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