circumscribe

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Perhaps anyone could guess as much, but what a layman might never know without Stanford’s book is that our busy roads severely circumscribe the territory cougars can roam, leading to isolation and inbreeding.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2024

The charter provision does not appear to circumscribe that investigative authority for the department’s highest-ranking officer, the police chief.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 13, 2023

If successful, its stem-cell-derived therapy would eliminate the pin-pricks and insulin injections that circumscribe the lives of the 1.5 million Americans with Type 1 diabetes.

From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2022

The depression may circumscribe his behavior, but don’t let it dictate yours.

From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 2021

It was his professed object to restrain Russia, and to circumscribe her limits.

From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various