lunatic fringe
nounDefinition of lunatic fringe
: the members of a usually political or social movement espousing extreme, eccentric, or fanatical views
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On the site, the ease with which a person on can be transported from any innocuous search to the lunatic fringe of YouTube is startling. — NBC News, "As algorithms take over, YouTube's recommendations highlight a human problem," 19 Apr. 2018 Look, over 60 million voters are not a lunatic fringe. — Fox News, "Gowdy and Scott on Mueller probe, new book," 3 Apr. 2018 Some may say the Charlottesville riot was the lunatic fringe of the right and left, with no particular relevance to what falls in between. — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, "The Politics of Pointlessness," 16 Aug. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'lunatic fringe.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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