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perimeter

noun as in circumference, border

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“We’re lighting it around the whole house, the whole perimeter, and seeing what ignites.”

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In one of the deadliest attacks, RSF fighters broke through the perimeter of Saudi Maternity Hospital, and killed 460 people before kidnapping six health workers.

And more than half of that canopy exists only as decoration at school entrances, in parking lots and along campus perimeters.

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The solitary nests along the perimeter are thought to belong to larger, stronger fish capable of defending their territory alone.

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It is part of the first Pacific island chain that forms the U.S. security perimeter against Beijing’s ambitions.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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