periphery

A raw fable about looking up instead of feeling down, “Bird” shows writer-director Andrea Arnold back in a familiar milieu of cramped youth on the periphery, making do with what little is available, seesawing between explosive anger and playful respite.

The much-hyped new recruit, playing his first union game since his schooldays, had been on the periphery of the action in the opening stages, but left Ollie Sleightholme groping at air before flipping a pass over the top of Henry Slade for Tom Wright to slide in.

Some on the town's periphery have few facilities inside or out, with just old swings in the playground.

In Israel, more than 75,000 people fled homes on Gaza’s periphery.

The trips are shoring up Israel’s tourism industry after the war brought it to an abrupt halt—but critics say the narrow focus on this tragedy pushes the suffering of Gazans to the periphery, even as bombs drop less than 10 miles away from the tourists.