fringe
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The lack of the main UK parties in the by-election gave dozens of fringe candidates including Binface a chance to seize the spotlight.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Chainlink necklaces, lace headpieces and even fringe bangs become a form of armor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Asked at the fringe event if she would visit him in prison, Sturgeon replied: "No. I'm not going to speak to him, I'm not going to visit him."
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Arguments that Burger and Bork dismissed as fringe advocacy became orthodox within conservative legal circles.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
Mal ran her hand through her wonky fringe and smiled her finest skeptical smile.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Some of these "fringes" measure only slightly more than 20 kilometers across.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
In the BBC documentary series, he travels to some of the world's most dangerous places, interviewing young men who live on the fringes of society.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
Some of the nation’s priciest real estate often means growth gets pushed out to metro Boston’s fringes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
We’re seeing the fringes of electronic music rise, and very heavy rock music rise.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
There on the big table, covered with a black cloth with gold fringes, lay Rosa’s white coffin with its silver rivets.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
Woven baskets, checkered blankets, fringed umbrellas and trimmed napkins prove picnic classics never go out of style.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
Holland wore black trousers, a black jacket, a red dress shirt and black tie while Zendaya donned a strapless black gown with a fringed skirt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
Carrying loved ones and a handful of quickly snatched belongings, families trekked along narrow paths slick with mud and fringed by dense greenery, heading to relative safety.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2025
A classic grazing meadow, fringed by beech trees.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025
A red-white-and-blue, fringed baton-twirler’s dress hung from a tree.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
Sat behind a fringing machine at the mill, Hyslop, 28, deftly ran a dark cashmere fabric destined for a Spanish luxury brand through its frame, twisting the ends of the cloth into fringes.
From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026
The double-sided style is finished with chunky fringing and, even better, large rectangular pockets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2025
The world's largest fringing reef and another of Australia's Unesco World Heritage Sites, it is home to a lush oceanic forest that spreads out along the coast for hundreds of kilometres.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2025
After 10 days underway from New Zealand, the Araon reached the sea ice fringing Antarctica.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 18, 2024
The Mlothi was on the veld fringing Alexandra to the east, about half a mile from where we lived.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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