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peripheral

[puh-rif-er-uhl] / pəˈrɪf ər əl /


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This suggests that at least some movement difficulties linked to the disease may arise directly in the peripheral nervous system rather than being caused entirely by degeneration in the brain.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 10, 2026

Ironically for such a consequential theater, when the war began, in 1914, the central powers saw it as peripheral.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

The tech displays only the exact thing you're looking at in the highest quality, while making things in your peripheral vision less clear.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

What may be arguably new is treating the audiences for historically marginalized forms of art as central rather than peripheral.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

In short, a lot of things were going pretty well when I saw in my peripheral vision a slithering in the water beside Margo.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green

Chery said communications equipment and computer peripherals as well as automotive had led sales growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

The low forward P/E ratios for Sandisk and Micron haven’t only resulted from the hot market for memory chips and computer memory peripherals.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026

The first AI category is investment into the computers, peripherals and networking equipment that fill these data centers, which grew by 61% annualized from the previous quarter.

From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026

Immediately after the fire took his home, Moore needed to work, but he no longer possessed the peripherals and equipment he required to record.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2026

In the peripherals of my vision, the Hebrew letters on signs seemed to change, distorting into an alphabet I had never learned.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros


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