peripherally

Adverb

Meaning

in or at or near a periphery or according to a peripheral role or function or relationship

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All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it. Chaim Potok

Both Nesmith (a skilled guitarist and bassist) and Tork (who could play several stringed and keyboard instruments) were peripherally familiar with the instrument but both declined to give the drum set a try. Source: Internet

Hanson (2006), p. 242 These few troops were peripherally effective in an offensive sense, but critical in providing defense for the oarsmen. Source: Internet

Similarly, a cutaway scene is the interruption of a scene with the insertion of another scene, generally unrelated or only peripherally related to the original scene. Source: Internet

It should be noted these themes are only peripherally referenced in a traditional Jewish Seder. Source: Internet

The society was divided into two peripherally interrelated sectors. Source: Internet

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