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periphery
[ puh-rif-uh-ree ]
noun
- the external boundary of any surface or area.
Synonyms: ,
Antonyms:
- the external surface of a body.
Antonyms:
- the edge or outskirts, as of a city or urban area.
- the relatively minor, irrelevant, or superficial aspects of the subject in question:
The preliminary research did not, of course, take me beyond the periphery of my problem.
- Anatomy. the area in which nerves end.
periphery
/ 辫蓹藞谤瑟蹿蓹谤瑟 /
noun
- the outermost boundary of an area
- the outside surface of something
- anatomy the surface or outermost part of the body or one of its organs or parts
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of periphery1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of periphery1
Example Sentences
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.
鈥淲hile there are still cardinals from some of the largest Catholic cities in the world, he would choose cardinals that came from places that were on the periphery,鈥 Deck said of the late pope.
鈥淚 think he had a special place in his heart for for those sort of people, not just the people who encounter those struggles, but for anybody that lived in the peripheries,鈥 Salcedon said.
"Vietnam... and others in the periphery are collateral damage in what is shaping up to be the most aggressive realignment of US trade policy in a generation," he added.
But the brothers face years of legal battles which may well push them, and their still lucrative brand, further to the periphery of the far larger dramas now reshaping our world.
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