peripheral
Example Sentences
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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
"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
Yet the weakest section of the memoir pertains to Mr. Junod’s grandmother—Lou’s mother—and her various misdeeds, including her peripheral involvement in a 1935 crime.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
Traore, who has been a peripheral player for Fulham this season, came through Barcelona's youth system before joining Aston Villa in 2015.
From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026
Jesper whirled, revolvers raised, as a shape sprang into his peripheral vision, but it was just Kaz.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
Vocabulary lists containing peripheral
Computer Science and Technology - Introductory
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Computer Science and Technology - Middle School
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