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  • noun Plural form of rimland.

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Examples

  • We waste our strength warring against the most wretched on the very rimlands of civilized life and ignore challenges to our world system closer to home.

    Michael Vlahos: America: Enemy of Change, Midwife of the Future 2010

  • The wisdom of geographical determinism endures across the chasm of a century because it recognizes that the most profound struggles of humanity are not about ideas but about control over territory, specifically the heartland and rimlands of Eurasia.

    doggdot.us 2009

  • The wisdom of geographical determinism endures across the chasm of a century because it recognizes that the most profound struggles of humanity are not about ideas but about control over territory, specifically the heartland and rimlands of Eurasia.

    doggdot.us 2009

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