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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
If quantum-mind theories are fringy, quantum psychiatry is the fringe of the fringe.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 24, 2022
The burly right-hander mixes a riding four-seam fastball that sits between 95-98 mph and touches 100 mph with a sinking, tailing 93-96-mph two-seamer, a late-breaking, 84-87-mph slider, a mid-80s changeup and fringy low-80s curve.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 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 Washington Post ● 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
Mr. Mastriano has also drawn criticism for his efforts to expand his social-media reach beyond Facebook and Twitter into newer, fringier spaces on the right.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2022
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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