fringe area

noun

Radio and Television.

1. an area just beyond the outer limits of satisfactory reception, characterized by a weak and possibly unstable signal.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fringe area¹

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

Go to a fringe area on a practice hole or to a fake putting green and hit clean little chips with a 6-iron, focusing on letting the club swing and getting that brush on the turf.

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But many Hindu nationalists, who are now ascendant in Indian politics, saw Kashmir as an unruly, Muslim-dominated fringe area that needed to be brought to heel.

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There is nothing stupid about the hole, with the exception of a few years when they shaved the fringe area down to nothing—any spin on the ball, and there was nothing stopping it.

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Bitcoin vaulted last year from a fringe area of Wall Street interest to the most talked-about asset in the financial world.

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However, just as the existence of pink does not undermine the distinction between red and white, and dawn doesn’t indicate that day and night are really the same, this problematic fringe area, Quinian arguments notwithstanding, doesn’t negate the fundamental differences between science and its impostors.

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