Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the property of being marginal or on the fringes.
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- noun The state of being
marginal
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- noun the property of being marginal or on the fringes
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Examples
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I suppose one of the reasons for that feeling of marginality is not so much representation on faculty or publications, as respect for women writers of the past in these venues.
Numbers Trouble : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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After a lengthy description of the Childe and Braidwood models, Binford dismissed both of them in favor of yet a third explanation that later came to be known as the marginality or edge hypothesis.
The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005
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Nonetheless, the experience of childhood "marginality" could not be erased: periodically even at Smith she could feel "awkward," painfully isolated, and ugly.
"Betty Friedan, Feminism, and Jewish Identity", from Joyce Antler, The Journey Home... 2010
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I’m wondering, if perhaps you’re thinking of the idea of marginality?
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What is not widely known is that this "marginality" has often been the result not of market forces but of government regulation.
LewRockwell.com 2010
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What is not widely known is that this "marginality" has often been the result not of market forces but of government regulation.
LewRockwell.com 2010
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DDR3 seems to have lots of problems with "marginality".
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DDR3 seems to have lots of problems with "marginality".
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In some ways it speaks of its marginality; Finlay aside, there are few very well-known names here, and not many journals or publications dedicated exclusively to the form.
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In some ways it speaks of its marginality; Finlay aside, there are few very well-known names here, and not many journals or publications dedicated exclusively to the form.
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