ambit
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She points out that students and parents are “voting with their feet, and with their wallets” by moving to schools outside the ambit of “elite” education.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
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
Besides, he said that "it's the jail authorities or the district administration that approve parole" and that "it's all being done within the ambit of the law".
From BBC • Feb. 21, 2023
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
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Life of Pi
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