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fringe

[frinj] / frɪndʒ /


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Normally few people if any vote for these fringe candidates.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

Marx has never held public office—like most fringe candidates, he touts his outsider status as an asset—and his entry into the race took many party activists by surprise.

From Slate Jun. 29, 2026

Over the past year or so, fringe ideas have been commercialized for the mainstream.

From Salon Jun. 15, 2026

YSL did this collection a couple seasons ago with socks with fringe on them.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 2026

She unfolded the whole thing and laced her fingers through the yarn fringe at the ends.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez

In “Self-Portrait With Necklace,” a string of blue jadestones rests on Kahlo’s bare neck, above the fringes of a lace blouse.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

Not only does it provide a unique home for wildlife but coastal fringes act as both a natural flood defence and a carbon sink.

From BBC Jun. 4, 2026

We’re seeing the fringes of electronic music rise, and very heavy rock music rise.

From Los Angeles Times May 12, 2026

Crypto has moved from the fringes of the financial world closer to the mainstream, and it isn’t unusual for people to own part of their wealth in bitcoin or other digital assets.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 23, 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

As the sky darkened over the white stucco church framed in palm trees and the dry peaks of the San Bernardino Mountains, fringed teenagers made their way inside, shaking their limbs and chattering in excitement.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 22, 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

Her giant head and white pectoral fins - fringed with barnacles - are visible as she slowly floats beneath us.

From BBC Jun. 7, 2024

It was a rocky sandbar a mile wide at its widest and a little longer than that, fringed all about with shoals and rocks.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

Then they turned south again, following a dirt road through open woods and into a marshy area fringing Lake Washington.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown




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