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periphery

[puh-rif-uh-ree] / pəˈrɪf ə ri /


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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

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.

From Watch and Clock Escapements A Complete Study in Theory and Practice of the Lever, Cylinder and Chronometer Escapements, Together with a Brief Account of the Origin and Evolution of the Escapement in Horology by Anonymous




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