- past tense form of circumscribe.
- past participle of circumscribe.
circumscribed
Example Sentences
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The authors of the study estimated that their circumscribed findings extrapolated countywide could represent up to $114 million in losses over a month of sustained enforcement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Yet the pardon power is circumscribed: It applies only to criminal “offenses,” excluding impeachments.
From Slate ● May 26, 2026
In between are Egyptian vultures, which use rocks to crack open ostrich eggs—genuine tool use—but when presented with rocks and chicken eggs simply cannot figure out what to do, suggesting a rather circumscribed “intelligence.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
As recently as the noncooperation movement in 1920-22, women played a far more circumscribed role.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
On the other hand, the rhythmless is unlimited, and the speech should be circumscribed but not by meter; for what is unbounded is unpleasant and unrecognizable.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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