peripheral
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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
Caicedo makes it clear that these disillusioned kids struggle to find themselves, trapped in a country peripheral to the cultural world they are thrilled by.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Once the peripheral immune cells entered the brain, they transformed into specialized microglia.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
"The more it's about the other peripheral issues, the harder it is for the prosecution," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Still, man, it wasn’t gonna be easy getting past the living room without him catching me in his peripheral.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
The personal computer and killer apps such as spreadsheets fueled an explosion of demand that far offset that falling price: between 1974 and 1984, business investment in computers and peripherals tripled to 0.8% of GDP.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Micron’s 2026 performance is in line with a very hot market for makers of memory chips and computer storage 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
Some of the computer peripherals were already in boxes, but clothes and household stuff and books were scattered through every room.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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Computer Science and Technology - Introductory
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