- past tense form of circumscribe.
- past participle of circumscribe.
circumscribed
Example Sentences
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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
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
We can’t possibly hope to examine all the wild plant species of even a circumscribed area like California, and to assess how many of them would have been domesticable.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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