peripheral
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“No other party in the conflict or peripheral to the conflict has been equally vocally confident in the prospect of peace through superior firepower.”
From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026
The move, first reported by the Financial Times, comes as the artificial intelligence giant seeks to shed what executives have described as peripheral projects as it tries to maintain its lead in the AI market.
From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026
"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 • Feb. 11, 2026
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 • Feb. 11, 2026
I think there are others in here with me, but they’re all out of view, behind me, just past the edge of my peripheral vision.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
Vocabulary lists containing peripheral
Computer Science and Technology - Introductory
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Computer Science and Technology - Middle School
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