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What structure, completed in 128 CE, originally delineated the northern boundary of Roman Britannia?

delineate

[dih-lin-ee-ayt] / dɪˈlɪn iˌeɪt /


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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

We can once again delineate the end of the era via new shows that don’t belong to it.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

I really wanted to delineate that these aren’t who you are.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 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

“But not now. We’re satisfied ourselves that it will delineate the Nexus-6 types and we’d like you to proceed on that basis in your own particular, peculiar work.”

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

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

The paper is titled "A combined genomic arrhythmia propensity score delineates cumulative risk."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 17, 2025

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

Bezos has been more traditional, more delineated, like the crisp documents he famously wanted for discussions at Amazon’s meetings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025

The front of the coin will feature Trump in profile, with his trademark 1967 Las Vegas lounge act hairstyle delineated in fine detail.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2025

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

Nevertheless, arbitrarily delineated stages provide a useful shorthand for discussing the diversity of music and of human societies, provided one bears in mind the above caveats.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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 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

The accents are depthless, burnished black: black railings enclosing white porches, black drainpipes crawling down white walls, black trim delineating white window frames.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2025

The prints, not noticeable to the naked eye, registered on film; indeed, the delineating glare of a flashbulb had revealed their presence with superb exactness.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote


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