as in edge
the line or relatively narrow space that marks the outer limit of something
soldiers guarding the perimeter of the camp
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Recent Examples of perimeter
As the team’s top point-of-attack defender, Melton can take the opponent’s toughest perimeter matchup, freeing up Curry to focus more on offense.
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Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2026
That collapse forms the backdrop for a new gathering taking shape just beyond the festival’s official perimeter.
—Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 6 Jan. 2026
The UConn men’s basketball team was starving for perimeter defense at this time last year.
—Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 5 Jan. 2026
Yet these are the very players the Knicks invested so heavily in their perimeter defenders to slow down.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2026
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Rye whiskey is the drier and spicier cousin of bourbon with an herbaceous edge, an edge which (as with the Sazerac, La Louisiane and others) is given a few dozen exclamation points with a dash of absinthe.—
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Cake mix, lemon pie filling, and butter come together in the oven to create crisp edges and a gooey, citrusy center, while a little cream cheese in the mix rounds out the lemon’s brightness.—
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Separated from regular life by a kaleidoscopic shell whose circumference continues to expand, the Shimmer, as it’s called, has claimed the lives of every person who has gone inside — except one.—
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Waist circumference is a proxy measurement for the amount of fat that may be around your organs, which increases your risk of heart disease and stroke.—
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One of the most powerful yet underappreciated forces in these dynamics is social identity, the psychological force that compels people to sort themselves into groups and take those group boundaries seriously.—
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Soon enough, the fielders were spread depressingly across the ground with men littering the boundary.—
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Outside the capital, guerrilla groups and organized crime syndicates are exploiting the power vacuum along Venezuela’s borders and in its resource-rich interior.—
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Born in France but a staple of Moroccan cinema, Laxe has a talent for scaling international borders and belief systems to peer into worlds that feel dangerously tactile and spiritually slippery.—
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This chronological edging might be pleasurable for Shane and Ilya, but when built into the framing of an episode of television, the fade-ins and -outs overwhelm and distract the narrative.—
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The result is precise, confident edging with less effort, making this a top choice for skiers who want comfort and control.—
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And Kentucky was able to get to the rim for much of the early action.—
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DeRozan received the pass, took one dribble and tried a running 29-foot 3-pointer that clanked off the back rim and the Kings lost, 100-98.—
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The island represents the periphery of tourism’s slow eastward creep.—
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The current zoning calls for dense residential development with some commercial uses on the periphery.—
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“Perimeter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perimeter. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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