delimited

Example Sentences

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A lower-risk zone with a 20km radius has also been delimited.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

It was designed to corral a small group of suspects within a delimited space, thereby reducing the number of variables the writer needed to juggle and the reader to remember.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

“A scientist’s explanations about other animals are dictated by the data she collects, which are influenced by the questions she asks, which are steered by her imagination, which is delimited by her senses,” Yong writes.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2022

“We must fix the flaws in our public health system, empower scientific leadership to take proactive actions and have a delimited framework for how to use blunt tools when all other options are exhausted.”

From Washington Times • May 3, 2021

That is, there is no item in an outline, no branch of a tree, no unit of discourse that consistently corresponds to a block of text delimited by a blank line or an indentation.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker