peripheral
Example Sentences
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“No other party in the conflict or peripheral to the conflict has been equally vocally confident in the prospect of peace through superior firepower.”
From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026
"We've all had that moment of wandering into a club and scanning the room with your peripheral vision and being like, 'Are they there? Are they there?'" she says.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
Traditional CAR-NK approaches usually depend on mature NK cells collected from sources such as peripheral blood or cord blood.
From Science Daily • Feb. 17, 2026
Ms. Fennell has greatly streamlined the complicated plot of Emily Brontë’s novel, eliminating the framing device, the supernatural element, several peripheral figures and a second generation of characters.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026
I think there are others in here with me, but they’re all out of view, behind me, just past the edge of my peripheral vision.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
Vocabulary lists containing peripheral
Computer Science and Technology - Introductory
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Computer Science and Technology - Middle School
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