circumscribed
Example Sentences
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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
As per the country's own observations, the fund had limited ability to do something about the loan, and was "circumscribed by procedural and technical formalities".
From BBC • May 14, 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
Dedd looks at her watch as a polite reminder to the woman that the visit is circumscribed.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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