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. President Petro Poroshenko:

   I think the fact of using the tense situation on the outskirts of Debaltseve by militants-terrorists-mercenaries poses a great threat, which can violate the ceasefire regime.

2. Virginia:

   On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

3. Wut Yee:

   The next morning, I had to follow this man after the doctor injected me with anesthetics. He took me in his car to a house on the outskirts of town. I spent the whole day with him, i wasn't in pain when he sent me back home in the evening because of the medication, but I couldn't walk properly.

4. Ismet Sheik Hassan:

   Fighters are still clearing homes and streets of booby-traps and mines. There are some clashes from ISIS pockets on the outskirts of the town, but Ain Isa and the surrounding villages are free of the ISIS terrorists.

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.