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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

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

Communications professionals, previously relegated to the periphery, are now front and center in the C-suite, partly emboldened by CEOs’ fears that even the smallest misstep can swiftly balloon into a corporate disaster.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 8, 2026

I seemed to be on the periphery of life, not really a part of it.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

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

During his 12 years as pontiff, Francis visited 68 countries on 47 foreign trips, often choosing destinations on the world's margins, which he described as the Church's "peripheries".

From BBC Aug. 21, 2025

He was a great pope, a really great pope of my era, especially the way he reached out to the peripheries, which reaffirmed the ministry I had of reaching outside of the church.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 24, 2025

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

And 25 All touch-angles in equall peripheries are equall.

From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William




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