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When Wiener started pushing Yimby policies about 15 years ago, many of his ideas were unpopular and fringy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
But when I asked Chalmers about the omission of quantum theories of consciousness, he informed me that they were too fringy for this conference.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 26, 2023
“He loves to go on his websites or whatever, whatever it’s called, the fringy message boards — but he doesn’t actually have a plan to engage parents in this process.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2022
“What we have unfortunately learned over the last 30 years is that there’s a whole lot of people who share his views. … At the time it seemed fringy, now it seems a bit frightening.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2020
I thought sitting on one of those red velvety couches chock-full of fringy pillows was probably akin to suffocating.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
He began appearing on Fox News but also on fringier political outlets.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2024
In its fringier forms, the sentiment can become more conspiratorial.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2023
The most incendiary language surfaced outside the mainstream of conservative talk, on fringier fare that commands listeners despite smaller distribution.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2021
The fringier, angrier element will tell you that involving men in violence prevention will somehow foster an environment in which men and boys are raised to believe they’re all potential abusers.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2013
Today's young, fringier musicians are remaking the blues yet again.
From Time Magazine Archive
Until the mid-aughts, fat biking remained the fringiest of fringe sports, appealing almost exclusively to die-hard cyclists.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2021
You might think it makes sense to chalk up all those comments to the fringiest of the fringe but that would be wrong.
From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2021
This festival, once Eastern Europe’s fringiest music upstart, has grown into one of the largest music festivals in the world.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2016
The fringiest fringe experience of 2011 was visiting Simon Munnery's pop-up restaurant La Concepta, which appeared in a different outdoor location daily, for an exclusive guestlist of four.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 28, 2011
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