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
He was a great pope, a really great pope of my era, especially the way he reached out to the peripheries, which reaffirmed the ministry I had of reaching outside of the church.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2025
It has seen attacks on its peripheries in recent weeks, but this was the first strike on the settlement itself.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2024
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
But in unequall peripheries, the cornicular angle of a lesser periphery, is greater than the Cornicular of a greater.
From The Way To Geometry by William Bedwell
