periphery
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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
They’d spent virtually all their nineteen years on the periphery of various things—families, teams, churches, school cliques—and had developed a profound suspicion of hierarchies, authorities, institutions, bureaucracies, and anything connected with them.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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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
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
It has seen attacks on its peripheries in recent weeks, but this was the first strike on the settlement itself.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2024
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
While the far-flung peripheries of Sun's thought touch almost every field of knowledge and opinion, a systematic condensation of his views cannot hope to survey the same broad ranges.
From The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger
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