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bailiwick

[bey-luh-wik] / ˈbeɪ ləˌwɪk /


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Guernsey's Healthier Weight Strategy estimated more than 57% of adults in the bailiwick are overweight or obese, while it found almost a third of Year 5 children were living with excess weight.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

But he has intervened in reviews and jettisoned other drugs that fall outside his bailiwick.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 13, 2026

Another example, also in E&C’s bailiwick, is a priority of the committee chairman, Brett Guthrie.

From Slate May 17, 2025

“I think it's a thing which is outside the bailiwick of lots of people, and yet I think it stands the most chance of giving a really dynamic impulse to the whole scientific enterprise.”

From Salon Jan. 17, 2025

“Yeah. That’s the way we been asked to play it. Bernie here—it’s his bailiwick, his jurisdiction, as the saying goes, right Bernie?”

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols




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