circumscribe
Example Sentences
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First, the state needs to provide clear guidance to carefully circumscribe the situations in which conservatorships are, and are not, appropriate.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2023
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
Those who ban books seem to want to circumscribe empathy, reserving it for a limited circle closer to the kind of people they perceive themselves to be.
From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2022
Howlers typically start at dusk and end hours later, following desolate fire roads that circumscribe an area known to contain wolves.
From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2021
It is upon the same principle that a higher intelligence is able to comprehend, circumscribe, and instruct that which is less.
From Key to the Science of Theology by Pratt, Parley P.
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