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
So circumscribed is our behavior that airline employees sometimes refer to passengers as “self-loading cargo.”
From Slate • Mar. 14, 2025
As befits a creation story, “Furiosa” tracks Furiosa from childhood to young adulthood, a downward spiral that takes her from freedom to captivity and, in time, circumscribed sovereignty.
From New York Times • May 15, 2024
To allow my activities to be circumscribed by my opponent was a form of defeat, and I resolved not to become my own jailer.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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