outskirts
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On the outskirts of Urumqi, the regional capital, billions of dollars have been invested in a vast solar farm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Still, the cumbia villera of her childhood — a heavily synthesized subgenre born in the outskirts of Buenos Aires in the late 1990s — runs through everything she makes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
As inflation weighs on Japanese households, huge arcades on the outskirts of major cities are installing claw machines filled with eggs, rice, laundry detergent and other necessities.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
Yang, 91, lives on the outskirts of China's bustling capital Beijing.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
They’d had no food and little sleep in five days and in this condition on the outskirts of a small town they came upon a once grand house sited on a rise above the road.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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