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periphery

[puh-rif-uh-ree] / pəˈrɪf ə ri /


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European car companies have increasingly been pushed to the periphery.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

Money, as Ms. Smith shows, is at the heart of the relationship between center and periphery.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

A son to Jewish Moroccan immigrants, Eisenkot grew up in the working-class city of Eilat in Israel’s periphery.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

To those on the periphery of his world the announcement of his passing was an almighty shock.

From BBC May 17, 2026

I helped him construct a sturdy stick barricade around the periphery so the jungle animals and village goats would not come in and wreck our tender vegetables when they came.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

The estimated range for each animal was then outlined on the form by connecting peripheries of the circles.

From Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado by Charles L. Douglas




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