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- noun Plural form of
periphery .
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Examples
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If this was a way of understanding the 'lack' of capitalist development in the so-called peripheries of the world-system, how exactly was development explained, where it did take place?
Kafila 2009
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If this was a way of understanding the 'lack' of capitalist development in the so-called peripheries of the world-system, how exactly was development explained, where it did take place?
Kafila 2009
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Van der Walt said there were indications from investigations he had done and documents that Zuma was involved in the "peripheries" of some of the projects relating to the arms deal.
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"peripheries" in the adjudication of South Africa's arms deal, the
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'peripheries' we haven't really been discussing, like Hungary, Czech, etc.
CNBC Trader Talk Blog — Pisani: Traders Uneasy on Insider Probe — CNBC.com Market News - CNBC 2010
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Mr. Kockerbeck sidestepped questions about whether Italy's fiscal and economic circumstances were similar to those in the euro-zone peripheries.
Moody's Puts Italy's Rating on Watch Javier E. David 2011
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The energy being released was monumental, a mass of very large electrical sparks that, if similar to other recent observations of constant lightning, glowed orangered at the peripheries and a deeper red close to the mouth.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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It is also important that Polish authors can show an image of the Western world as seen from its peripheries.
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For the holidays they also had a bandstand from which to play obnoxiously loud music, beer drinking tents all along the peripheries, with intermingled shooting booths and other such things carnival attractions.
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Kockerbeck sidestepped questions about whether Italy's fiscal and economic circumstances were similar to those in the euro-zone peripheries.
Moody's Warns Italy on Economy Javier E. David 2011
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