Vocabulary
Fringe
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
the border or outer edges of an area or group.
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Second, mainstream politicians realise that there are careers to be built by engaging with the people who hold that belief, even if until recently doing so would have been considered toxic or fringe.
- They are usually located on the fringe of the city or in ecologically unsafe areas, such as the flood plains of Karachi nullahs and even under high-tensile wires which are dangerous to health by law, no habitation is allowed under them.
- HE level of hysterical Islamophobia propagated through mainstream Western media and global social media by both fringe voices and popular personalities amidst war and genocide in the Middle East has been quite something to behold.
- It is about how a fringe media figure like Brian Glenn found himself in the Oval Office during one of the most critical press briefings in recent memory.
- The AfD often referred to as the `Nazi party` due to its members` anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi leanings was long considered a fringe group.
Synonyms
perimeter, periphery, border, borderline, margin, rim, outer edge, edge
Curator example
“the southern fringes of the city”
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