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n. - The outside boundary or surface of something.

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  • The point which has fallen from your short periphery is these politicians all make large sums of money.
  • Blood flow to the periphery is restored soon after, followed by breathing and then skeletal muscle activity.
  • The idea that people are just moving out of the core of their cities to the periphery is now too simplistic.
  • The villages and small towns - which we call the "periphery" - identify with the south and are alienated from the north.
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