periphery

Revolution spread from the imperial center to the colonial periphery, rather than the reverse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

In a ditch near a military outpost on Obeid’s periphery, an army engineer walked through a graveyard of RSF drones shot down in recent days.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026

But Leigh Radwell who has lived on the periphery of the base in Heyford Park for more than a decade, wants to know whether it has polluted the surrounding environment where she lives.

From BBC ● May 20, 2026

Recognizing that geography still matters, they extended their defensive periphery seaward, initially to the first island chain, from Japan to the South China Sea, and then to the second chain and beyond.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

As I take Justin’s books out of his locker, I can feel someone hovering on the periphery.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

The return of great-power rivalries, and the perennial challenge of disorder from peripheries beyond government control, has made that task a priority again.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

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

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

The Argentine pontiff has long prioritized visiting Catholic communities in what he calls the peripheries, staying away from the global centers of Catholicism to minister instead to small churches where Catholics are often a minority.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2023

And let two equall peripheries from the ends a. and e. meete in i. and o.

From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William