periphery
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Unlike Netanyahu, who comes from an elite family and whose father was a prominent professor in the United States, Eisenkot is the son of Moroccan Jews, and grew up on Israel's geographic periphery.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
Drivers can usually guide their cars down a stroad without paying attention to their periphery, she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
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
We are the breakers or the broken ones, the people whose lives were touched by the widest periphery of deaths.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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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
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
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
These, moreover, are the peripheries of the Greek world; and at its centre the impulse towards union in the national state readies a passionate intensity.
From The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey by Nevill Forbes
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