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Meanings of lunatic fringe in English

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Usage of lunatic fringe in English
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He obviously paid more attention to the lunatic fringe channels than I did.
The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
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At the time, proponents of global warming were generally considered the lunatic fringe.
Wired
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The Eighth is, in one crucial respect, on the lunatic fringe of anti-abortion activism.
The Irish Times
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The group had become a touchstone for the lunatic fringe.
Artemis Fowl: the time paradox
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I'm the fringe on the lunatic fringe!
The last page
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Browse through the catalog, and you'll see tracts from the radical left, the radical right, and the lunatic fringe.
Wired
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He called the government's theories "more worthy of a lunatic fringe than of a concerned and compassionate state".
The Guardian
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But their rhetoric had become the lunatic fringe and it drowned quickly in the tumult of a rising indignant mass.
The last page
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In the wake of a revolution, ideas that had been considered veritably lunatic fringe quickly become the accepted currency of debate.
The Democracy Project
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In his native Greece he is considered to be part of the lunatic fringe of biblical scholarship-harmlessand possibly mentally disturbed.
A river in the sky
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Roosevelt had, many years before, spoken of the " lunatic fringe" which clings to the skirts of every sincere reform.
Theodore Roosevelt
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If you thought the fringe on his head was lunatic , you should see the lunatic fringe that want him as leader.
The Guardian
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Some of them were men of intelligible social and religious tenets; others furnished the " lunatic fringe" of the reform movement.
The Age of the Reformation
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A new look lunatic fringe is back to a huge pop from the crowd, he will be in Seth's corner for SummerSlam.
The South African
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What we have is a large swathe of our community floundering to survive in a brave new world controlled by the neo-con lunatic fringe.
The Irish Times
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Keeping track of the lunatic fringe was plainly a hobby, not an obsession, with him; this wasn't the sort of man who had obsessions.
The Book of Skulls
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Lunatic fringe across language varieties
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