bailiwick

Example Sentences

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The bailiwick is placed below the UK and France in the 2025 survey and its overall score was unchanged compared with 2023.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 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