periphery
noun
the external boundary of any surface or area.
peripheries
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pluralof periphery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
And 25 All touch-angles in equall peripheries are equall.
From The Way To Geometry by William Bedwell
