peripheral

Example Sentences

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"We've all had that moment of wandering into a club and scanning the room with your peripheral vision and being like, 'Are they there? Are they there?'" she says.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

Traditional CAR-NK approaches usually depend on mature NK cells collected from sources such as peripheral blood or cord blood.

From Science Daily • Feb. 17, 2026

For decades, U.S. macroeconomic debates treated regulation as a sideshow—important for lawyers, lobbyists, and compliance officers but peripheral to the “real” drivers of economic performance, such as interest rates, deficits, and stimulus.

From Barron's • Feb. 2, 2026

In Europe, government bond yield spreads between peripheral eurozone countries and German Bunds tightened further, with Italian and Spanish spreads reaching new milestones and hitting levels unseen since 2008, according to LSEG.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

In the usual experience of archaeologists, inventions are supposed to flow from mainlands to islands, and small peripheral societies aren’t supposed to contribute revolutionary advances to the rest of the world.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond