ambit

Example Sentences

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Auditors, in turn, can certify the results so long as they fall within the wide ambit of accepted practice.

From Barron's • Oct. 13, 2025

Before I moved to Los Angeles, I was a theater critic and editor for the Village Voice, where my ambit was principally the downtown theater scene.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2023

And as the satellite-fuel example reflects, the FCC's ambit extends even into space.

From Salon • May 3, 2023

The new law, however, massively expands its ambit to include other sensitive information such as fingerprints, retina scans, behavioural attributes - like signatures and handwriting - and other "biological samples".

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2022

Fish that were local in their ambit made the net their neighbourhood, and the quick ones, the ones that tended to streak by, the dorados, slowed down to visit the new development.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel