outskirts
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He moved into a rented home in a quiet neighborhood on the outskirts of Buenos Aires where he was supposed to receive round-the-clock home care.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Many are migrant workers, living hand-to-mouth in cramped housing on the city's outskirts.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
Despite the name the race doesn't even start in the French capital famed for money and style these days, but in the outskirts of the outskirts instead.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
Shortly after arriving in Pyongyang, the American evangelist visited a humble thatched hut on the outskirts of Pyongyang where Kim was said to have been born on April 15, 1912.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
It lay at the outskirts of the town, on low ground, like a rubbish dump, and as I walked up and down the gravel paths, I could smell the stagnant salt marshes in the distance.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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