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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

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

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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