tightly drawn
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Tim Robinson, a district spokesperson, attributed the low ridership to tightly drawn boundaries for bus service at many schools, and use of smaller buses to navigate narrow streets.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 17, 2021
The same is true of thunderstorms, which can form over tightly drawn areas and miss nearby areas—sometimes within a mile—altogether.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 4, 2019
At a glance you see a solid black field of tightly drawn vertical graphite lines, with a fringe of stray line-ends at the bottom.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2018
To be a boss lady is to reject society’s expectations that women look and behave within tightly drawn boundaries.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2018
The colonists with small capital preferred to start where lands were cheaper and where social fines were not so tightly drawn.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton
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