circumscribe
Example Sentences
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That precedent set a “great level of deference” as the standard of review for deployments that have since mushroomed across the country, circumscribing debate even in courts where it is not legally binding.
From Los Angeles Times
In human terms, it is an emotional and costly undertaking, circumscribed by science, chance and luck.
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.
Yet this project’s geography is circumscribed, its borders hedged.
From Los Angeles Times
As per the country's own observations, the fund had limited ability to do something about the loan, and was "circumscribed by procedural and technical formalities".
From BBC
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