circumscribed
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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
Yet this project’s geography is circumscribed, its borders hedged.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025
So circumscribed is our behavior that airline employees sometimes refer to passengers as “self-loading cargo.”
From Slate • Mar. 14, 2025
Unlike in classical Athens, however, the power of the city’s civil servants was entirely circumscribed by the king’s, preserving only the outward form, not the substance, of self-government.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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