outskirts
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The corporation is signing a lease worth more than $1 million for manufacturing space at the Kapaa Industrial Park, a maze of steel buildings on the outskirts of Kailua.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
A private funeral took place on Sunday at a cemetery in the town of Perez, on the outskirts of Rosario.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
As a result, they can move through galactic outskirts without being noticed by telescopes on Earth.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
Firefighters in Greece gained ground Tuesday against a wildfire burning for a fifth day on the outskirts of Athens, as easing winds allowed water-bombing aircraft back into the skies in force.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
And so we arrived on the outskirts of a town on the outskirts of Rome called Mentana, at a place people called Hotel Barba.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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