circumscribed
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As recently as the noncooperation movement in 1920-22, women played a far more circumscribed role.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025
Early Renaissance sculptors went to school on works like this, learning from them how to tell a complex story on a flat surface within a circumscribed area.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025
Yet this project’s geography is circumscribed, its borders hedged.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025
The family shame around Mitchell’s violent death prevented me from understanding his full legacy, and ultimately circumscribed the meaning of his life and art.
From Slate • Jun. 6, 2025
While it may have been unthinkable for most to extend their social circles to include black colleagues, within the circumscribed atmosphere of the office, they were cordial, even friendly.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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