periphery
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A stroll around its periphery, through the crowds, shows its elaborate towers still framed by a construction crane.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
European car companies have increasingly been pushed to the periphery.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Ever since, the 1968 and 1974 African champions have been kept on the game's periphery by a combination of conflict, corruption, poor football governance and a lack of facilities.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
Revolution spread from the imperial center to the colonial periphery, rather than the reverse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
I catch a glimpse of white in my periphery, which turns out to be Taylor in a full-on glide.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
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Those immediately guarding the president seem to be hardy and quick, but the peripheries of such events are a continuing problem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
During his 12 years as pontiff, Francis visited 68 countries on 47 foreign trips, often choosing destinations on the world's margins, which he described as the Church's "peripheries".
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2025
In 2016, Francis canonized Argentina’s first saint: José Gabriel del Rosario Brochero, a poncho-wearing, mate-sipping “gaucho priest” who ministered in the Argentine peripheries, and was in many ways a 19th-century version of Francis himself.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
The observatory may even find the hypothetical Planet Nine, a large world that some astronomers believe is hiding at the solar system’s peripheries.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 9, 2024
For by drawing the raies of the equall peripheries ia. and ie. the said io. doth cut the angle aie. into two equall parts, by the 11. e.
From The Way To Geometry by William Bedwell
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