fringe
Example Sentences
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Then Golding wrote, “Softly, surrounded by a fringe of inquisitive bright creatures, itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellations, Simon’s dead body moved out towards the open sea.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
The Baader-Meinhof gang -- named after two early leaders, Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof -- emerged out of the radical fringe of the 1960s and 70s student protest movement.
From Barron's • May 27, 2026
What if the crazy paranoid fringe was in fact the vanguard?”
From Salon • May 26, 2026
Bailey’s views would once have been considered fringe.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
The littlest one, who always became entangled in the carpet fringe, would be the first to go.
From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary
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