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As recently as the noncooperation movement in 1920-22, women played a far more circumscribed role.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025

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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025

So circumscribed is our behavior that airline employees sometimes refer to passengers as “self-loading cargo.”

From Slate • Mar. 14, 2025

In a place long circumscribed by disaster, Bass is facing a catastrophe with financial and logistical burdens that will likely dwarf the combined fallout from the 1994 Northridge earthquake and the 1992 civil unrest.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2025

It was to move back, if only by a few inches, the wall that circumscribed the possible.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson




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