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peripheral

[puh-rif-er-uhl] / pəˈrɪf ər əl /


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“No other party in the conflict or peripheral to the conflict has been equally vocally confident in the prospect of peace through superior firepower.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026

Each year in the UK, there are around 100,000 hospital admissions due to heart attacks, another 100,000 people experience a stroke and around 350,000 people live with peripheral arterial disease.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Traditional CAR-NK approaches usually depend on mature NK cells collected from sources such as peripheral blood or cord blood.

From Science Daily • Feb. 17, 2026

For decades, U.S. macroeconomic debates treated regulation as a sideshow—important for lawyers, lobbyists, and compliance officers but peripheral to the “real” drivers of economic performance, such as interest rates, deficits, and stimulus.

From Barron's • Feb. 2, 2026

With this closer, peripheral examination, I suddenly wondered if the girl was a Native American.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan




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