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periphery

[puh-rif-uh-ree] / pəˈrɪf ə ri /


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Successive governments neglected Israel's geographic periphery, focusing overwhelmingly on security issues, he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

If humanity doesn’t exist on a binary, perhaps the emphasis shouldn’t always be on trying to see eye to eye; otherwise, no one can take a clear look at what’s happening in the periphery.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

European car companies have increasingly been pushed to the periphery.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

Revolution spread from the imperial center to the colonial periphery, rather than the reverse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

I walk along the periphery of the party through Sagan’s jungle, toward the seed vault.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

The narrator relates his implausible wanderings around an inverted empire in which there is no center of power or culture, a world that seems to be all peripheries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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

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 Argentine pontiff has long prioritized visiting Catholic communities in what he calls the peripheries, staying away from the global centers of Catholicism to minister instead to small churches where Catholics are often a minority.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2023

The peripheries of this row of cylinders are cut in figures, according to the design of the pattern to be worked.

From Scientific American magazine Vol 2. No. 3 Oct 10 1846 The Advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements by Rufus Porter


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