periphery
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If humanity doesn’t exist on a binary, perhaps the emphasis shouldn’t always be on trying to see eye to eye; otherwise, no one can take a clear look at what’s happening in the periphery.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
European car companies have increasingly been pushed to the periphery.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Most likely, the Dodgers’ deadline moves will be around the periphery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
John McGinn's winning goal came via a deflection, and starting strikers Lawrence Shankland and Che Adams were on the periphery.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
I see a flicker of movement in my periphery, and look out the window that faces the apple orchard.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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The narrator relates his implausible wanderings around an inverted empire in which there is no center of power or culture, a world that seems to be all peripheries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
He was a great pope, a really great pope of my era, especially the way he reached out to the peripheries, which reaffirmed the ministry I had of reaching outside of the church.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2025
It has seen attacks on its peripheries in recent weeks, but this was the first strike on the settlement itself.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2024
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
Now, it is known the circles which define the peripheries of the escape wheel and the impulse roller intersect at e e2.
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