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periphery

[puh-rif-uh-ree] / pəˈrɪf ə ri /


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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

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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