Allow me to take three examples: one that I was peripherally involved in back in the 1990s.

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Besides its lean showing at the event, Apple was otherwise only mentioned peripherally, in hallway chats and meeting-room discussions.

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You stare so intently at the road ahead--a wide but constant curve--that nothing registers peripherally but a background blur.

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WTO's members are still keen to keep domestic matters to themselves, so farm support enters the organisation's negotiating agenda only peripherally.

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But the good part is, they absorb information peripherally while focusing elsewhere.

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Until recently, I was only peripherally aware of Sheryl Sandberg.

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But for anyone even peripherally involved in misconduct, the enormous uncertainties regarding the ultimate response by law enforcement make rushing to blow any whistle a very dubious proposition.

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Joseph Stalin was a peripherally involved commissar, but he came out of that conflict harboring a deep hatred of the Poles, one reason that he gladly partitioned Poland with Nazi Germany in 1939.

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An Australian, Gerhard Toben, used to write what I at least considered to be pretty vile stuff on his website in Australia (I was working for a political party at the time and got peripherally involved with the case).

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