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peripheral

adjective as in minor, outside

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The play of Sunday, the play of being angels in the choir, is not just a peripheral secondary marginal realm of activity.

Because his new novel, The Peripheral, is his most dire yet.

Then I saw something in my peripheral vision, close to my back.

Every few weeks I get so far behind on sleep that I lose my peripheral vision.

They were a small and peripheral player, and now they want to be a main player—if not the main player.

When well stained, a delicate hyaline peripheral zone can be distinguished.

Quinin causes them rapidly to disappear from the peripheral blood, and few or none may be found after its administration.

In general, the central parts of continents are likely to receive much less rainfall than their peripheral portions.

Nearly all central impulses, we now know, arise because of the peripheral ones.

The last-named bowl, which has a greater peripheral speed than the others, is hollow and can be heated either by steam or gas.

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On this page you'll find 36 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to peripheral, such as: incidental, tangential, borderline, exterior, external, and inessential.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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