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To demarcate the borders of his $15 million deal, Jefferson sent out a Corps of Discovery—including young U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

Like their Jedi namesake, Skywalker gibbons cannot swim, so rivers tend to demarcate their species boundaries.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 14, 2024

The second, published in Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity on Nov. 30, took those qualitative findings and attempted to demarcate four discrete subtypes or pathways for detransition.

From Slate ● Dec. 1, 2023

If the American-brokered effort now moves to an attempt to demarcate the Blue Line as a permanent international land border, both Israel and Lebanon will want to be in the best starting position.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2023

That a mixed commission of British and Afghan officers should determine and demarcate the Amir's frontier.

From Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief by Frederick Sleigh Roberts

The Yellow Line demarcates territory in Gaza still under Israeli control under the ceasefire deal.

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026

The so-called yellow line demarcates the boundary inside the Gaza Strip that Israeli troops have withdrawn behind, as part of the US-brokered ceasefire.

From Barron's ● Nov. 20, 2025

And for Orthodox Jews who want to leave their homes on the Sabbath, there is something called an Eruv, a ring of string that demarcates a neighborhood and represents a symbolic extension of the home.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 30, 2021

The bike lane is slightly elevated above the car lane, which feels safer than just a white line that demarcates bike lanes in many other cities.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2019

The Devils Thumb demarcates the Alaska-British Columbia border east of Petersburg, a fishing village accessible only by boat or plane.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

What was once a regional sport with deep roots and clearly demarcated borders has morphed into a sprawling battle where geography and tradition have been pushed into the background.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2025

The Comoe River clearly delimits part of the northeastern frontier between Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso -- but the land border is poorly demarcated.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025

This absence distorts time or those edges of days or weeks or months that were once so clearly demarcated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2024

Content is demarcated by categories like “Movies,” “Comedy,” “Classic TV,” “Sci-Fi,” “Reality,” and “Season’s Greetings,” for those longing to fulfill their Hallmark and Lifetime Christmas movie cravings.

From Slate ● Dec. 24, 2023

She stood looking at the line of trees that demarcated the woods as clearly as any doorway.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

Thai authorities are investigating if negligence was what led to the deadly inferno at a Bangkok bar late on Sunday, as survivors reported doors being locked and the lack of signage demarcating emergency exits.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

This episode establishes them as spiritual sisters while demarcating how they differ.

From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2023

Families eat and enjoy music by a historic obelisk, the first monument demarcating the border, from the mid-1800s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2023

Lebanon hopes that demarcating maritime borders will pave the way for gas exploration to help lift it out of its crippling economic crisis.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2022

The light flickered over the paper as the old woman crouched down and stared at the lines demarcating the Great Wood, the river Nir, the Kell.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo