circumscribe

Example Sentences

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There’s a subtext to all this confusion: Appearances can be deceptive, and individual roles are seldom as rigidly circumscribed as people would like to believe.

From Los Angeles Times

And his circumscribed job title will make it difficult for him even to weigh in on the impasse, which began last year when the territory’s power-sharing government collapsed in a dispute over post-Brexit trade rules.

From New York Times

The federal judge overseeing the case on Thursday granted Trump’s team “a brief and carefully circumscribed examination” of what Carroll knew about her financial support but said the trial is still set for April 25.

From Washington Post

Too often the clarity of hindsight can become the enemy of real drama; the more phenomenal the legend, the more inevitable and even circumscribed their success can seem.

From Los Angeles Times

These Black artists are asserting their right to public space at a time when that space is still circumscribed by race, gender and class — and can be fatal to occupy.

From New York Times