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periphery

[puh-rif-uh-ree] / pəˈrɪf ə ri /


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European car companies have increasingly been pushed to the periphery.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

Most likely, the Dodgers’ deadline moves will be around the periphery.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

A son to Jewish Moroccan immigrants, Eisenkot grew up in the working-class city of Eilat in Israel’s periphery.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

John McGinn's winning goal came via a deflection, and starting strikers Lawrence Shankland and Che Adams were on the periphery.

From BBC Jun. 21, 2026

By the time of Anna’s death, the informal system of citizen policing had been displaced, but vestiges of it remained, especially in places that still seemed to exist on the periphery of geography and history.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Those immediately guarding the president seem to be hardy and quick, but the peripheries of such events are a continuing problem.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 30, 2026

It has seen attacks on its peripheries in recent weeks, but this was the first strike on the settlement itself.

From BBC Oct. 25, 2024

In 2016, Francis canonized Argentina’s first saint: José Gabriel del Rosario Brochero, a poncho-wearing, mate-sipping “gaucho priest” who ministered in the Argentine peripheries, and was in many ways a 19th-century version of Francis himself.

From Seattle Times Feb. 9, 2024

The observatory may even find the hypothetical Planet Nine, a large world that some astronomers believe is hiding at the solar system’s peripheries.

From National Geographic Jan. 9, 2024

The peripheries of the inscribed circles were then connected and the estimated home range was delimited by the exclusive boundary-strip method.

From Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado by Charles L. Douglas




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