periphery
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A stroll around its periphery, through the crowds, shows its elaborate towers still framed by a construction crane.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
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
Money, as Ms. Smith shows, is at the heart of the relationship between center and periphery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
I helped him construct a sturdy stick barricade around the periphery so the jungle animals and village goats would not come in and wreck our tender vegetables when they came.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
The return of great-power rivalries, and the perennial challenge of disorder from peripheries beyond government control, has made that task a priority again.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
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
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
And 25 All touch-angles in equall peripheries are equall.
From The Way To Geometry by William Bedwell
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The Kite Runner
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