outskirts
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Shortly after arriving in Pyongyang, the American evangelist visited a humble thatched hut on the outskirts of Pyongyang where Kim was said to have been born on April 15, 1912.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
"Those of us who want to farm now have to go and buy farmland on the outskirts of town," says David, who now owns farms in neighbouring Niger state.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
Bellamy chooses to work at Wales' national development centre on the outskirts of Newport because, in his words, this is a football place.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026
During the first weeks of Russia’s Starlink outage, Ukraine was able to push the Russians back from the outskirts of Zaporizhzhia, the regional capital, sparing the city from assaults from most artillery.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026
She moved our things out of storage into a plywood cabin on the piney outskirts of town, which she rented on the strength of a tiny legacy from Grandfather Wharton.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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