peripheral

Example Sentences

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Ms. Fennell has greatly streamlined the complicated plot of Emily Brontë’s novel, eliminating the framing device, the supernatural element, several peripheral figures and a second generation of characters.

From The Wall Street Journal

"It is more a peripheral vision or spatial awareness thing, sensing that something isn't quite right in the defence or there is more space than there should be."

From BBC

Ms. W. did her usual check-in and I almost didn’t hear or see her, I was watching Claire so carefully using my peripheral vision.

From Literature

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

As part of the project, the researchers are releasing what they describe as the world's largest publicly available collection of peripheral blood smear images, totaling more than half a million samples.

From Science Daily