lunatic fringe
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The 63 million or so Americans who voted for Donald Trump weren’t the lunatic fringe. — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, "High Noon for Judge Kavanaugh," 3 Oct. 2018 And this prediction isn’t coming from the lunatic fringes of tech, either. — Ana Veciana-suarez, miamiherald, "Humans and robots on the verge of getting romantically involved | Miami Herald," 29 Jan. 2018 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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