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periphery

noun as in outskirts, outer edge

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Example Sentences

He just walked around the periphery of the development and proceeded on.

Another U.S. intelligence official said, “Boko Haram is really on the periphery of the al Qaeda universe.”

The problem is, that periphery has now grown much closer thanks to the location of Sochi.

Despite the hype over gentrification, urban economies—including that of New York—still underperform their periphery.

We were on the outer periphery of the operation, too distant to see the scene clearly without binoculars.

It is sometimes indented, with its convex side in contact with the periphery of the cell.

So the intervals will be equal in the directions both of the periphery and of the length.

There is something definable there, in the periphery of those ancient ruins.

His eyes were still on the needles that kept creeping higher and higher along the calibrated periphery of the meters.

The centers of the crosses are occupied by the central hole of the whorl, while the arms extend to the periphery.

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On this page you'll find 47 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to periphery, such as: brink, fringe, perimeter, rim, verge, and ambit.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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