Synonyms for outskirts
out·skirts

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1. outskirts

   Synonyms:
   border, outpost, purlieu, environs, precincts

   Antonyms:
   interior, centre, bulk, body, mass, heart

Princeton's WordNet

1. outskirtsnoun

   outlying areas (as of a city or town)

   "they lived on the outskirts of Houston"; "they mingled in the outskirts of the crowd"

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1. List of paraphrases for "outskirts":

   suburbs, grass-lands, environs, peripheries, surroundings, fringes

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1. Jonathan Davis:

   These telescopes were designed to look for diffuse light around galaxies. Not in the context of dark matter, but you can repurpose the data to look for this glow, [The Dragonfly telescopes] are really good at looking for this high contrast between the really bright galactic center and the really dim outskirts of galaxies.

2. Sharfan Darwish:

   There is news about many Daesh (IS) members escaping and evacuating some areas of Manbij and booby-trapping them, our forces are now on the outskirts of the city. The campaign continues.

3. Paul Divakar:

   India has 600,000 villages and almost every village a small pocket on the outskirts is meant for Dalits, this settlement is far from health care centers, banks, schools and other essential services. During times like Covid-19, the aid may not even reach this small pocket.

4. Ali Nur:

   A roadside bomb targeted an AU vehicle as the AU convoy passed in the outskirts of Marka today. We do not know details about casualties.

5. Rob Larter:

   The trend in East Antarctica is that the ice sheet loses some ice around the edges and it gains some in the middle, overall, it isn't out of balance, but some on the outskirts are at a loss.