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Life is measured in mileposts, a steady progression through the rites of passage that delineate the mortal journey.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

Grande moves in a similar space, but without the satire to easily delineate the difference between healthy and unhealthy behaviors.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

While prosecution witnesses have refused to delineate between the Lachman and Palisades blazes, Haney has repeatedly described them as two distinct incidents that ignited days apart.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

Among other provisions, the bill would delineate when crypto markets are subject to securities regulation, likely placing most of the industry under the purview of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

From Barron's ● Mar. 9, 2026

He went on to delineate and, he hoped, prove his point.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

But what “Lanterns” does with John Stewart delineates the divide between sympathetic and empathetic storytelling.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

On Wednesday, Anthropic announced a new “services track” for the partner network, describing it as a “tiered structure” that delineates how much effort a partner has put toward its Anthropic business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

But the bill also delineates a number of “excepted purchases” that enable investors to continue buying homes without penalty.

From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026

Since marriage is a milestone that often delineates youth from adulthood, a logical question is how this delay affects retirement saving.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 23, 2026

But it also delineates a limit, a warning, an outer boundary of sobriety.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Pentagon chief said the move was also aimed at ensuring US "access, basing and overflight are clearly delineated and assured" after some European imposed restrictions on US forces during the Iran war.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

OpenAI has promised that its ads will never influence how ChatGPT answers questions and will always remain clearly delineated from other content.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

The wildfire–urban fire distinction matters because it determines both who is vulnerable to such disasters—a much broader section of neighborhoods than is delineated by fire-risk maps—and how to address the problem.

From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2025

The role anchors a show that is more a collection of scenarios than a clearly delineated story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2024

The bomb line was a scarlet band of narrow satin ribbon that delineated the forwardmost position of the Allied ground forces in every sector of the Italian mainland.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

He and the large L.A.-based produce company have dueling legal complaints over a contract delineating how the fruit was to be marketed and sold.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026

The care the Framers took in delineating this irreversible presidential power—requiring the president’s personal involvement, and limiting it to certain federal criminal matters—is telling.

From Slate ● May 26, 2026

The related documents have provided the biggest tranche of information about the case thus far, delineating key details in the ongoing investigation, which has been shrouded in secrecy.

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026

Katie Smye, a researcher at the Bureau of Economic Geology, said there are areas of the Permian where injecting wastewater can be done safely and the industry must put more work into delineating these zones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

I draw them, delineating the structures with different colored pencils, though I can never get the same luminous brillance.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood