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peripheral

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1. peripheral - Noun

2. peripheral - Adjective

3. peripheral - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to a periphery; constituting a periphery; peripheric.

External; away from the center; as, the peripheral portion of the nervous system.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples. Emily Greene Balch

You can see the future best through peripheral vision. Nicholas Negroponte

Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within. Steven Pressfield

Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in. Andrew Pyper

The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past. Edmund White

I have this home in New York, I have a long-term relationship with my boyfriend, who's from Australia, and I had this business that I had maintain. Even though I wasn't actively shooting, there's a lot of peripheral work. Claire Danes

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