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Discover LudwigThe phrase "the outskirts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a certain area that is on the edge or outside a city, town, etc. For example: As we drove out of the city, we found ourselves in the outskirts of town.
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the outskirts
noun
A more remote part of a town or city; the periphery, environs; a suburb
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It's on the outskirts of Damascus.
Surely the survivors on the outskirts grieve.
People live and work on the outskirts.
Groves of mulberry trees ring the outskirts.
Then they reached the outskirts.
She lives on the outskirts of Ramallah.
There were tough battles on the outskirts.
She was on the outskirts of Chamonix.
A bedroom on the outskirts of Berlin.
This is the Green Palace, on the outskirts of Tehran.
His establishment is in Sievering, on the outskirts of Vienna.
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