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It is more comforting to associate bigotry with certain attitudes supposedly on the fringes of public life.

As sunset approaches, the visible fringes of the horizon glow orange.

Smith survived the night patrol, and met Tolkien again on the fringes of the Battle of the Somme that summer.

But right now this grassroots reaction mainly finds its expression from the political fringes.

The fringes of the scarf lead to a collection of kitsch photos colored in purple dye.

If the ocean had only half its existing area, the lands would be so wide that only their fringes would be fertile.

He left the guards at the fringes of his engineers' forest and rode the eight-legged reptile recklessly among the huge trunks.

Earlier, Davy had asked Paul Curtis to find if his voice was reaching the remote fringes of the audience.

Set up everywhere are coloured umbrellas with fringes of coloured beads, as large as those used for tents on lawns sometimes.

All about were stumps and fringes of pines, which the lumbermen, for some good reason, had passed by.

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On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fringes, such as: suburb, surroundings, vicinity, bound, boundary, and compass.

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

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