confines
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Croatia must travel to Dallas, Toronto and Philadelphia for its group games, but it will recover between those matches in the preppy boarding-school confines of Episcopal High School in the D.C. suburbs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026
Drivers have complained in recent years that the cars were simply too big - too long and wide - to race effectively in the tight confines of the streets of Monaco.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
Pairing compute and memory allows for unmatched speed for any memory-intensive task that doesn’t leave the confines of a single Wafer-Scale Engine.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
Regardless of whether you attend the kite festival, this edition of the Weekend section deserves to fly far beyond the confines of your recycling bin.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2026
But dancing on a basketball court to the blaring of the school band wasn’t particularly romantic, wasn’t really much better than dancing in the close, sweaty confines of the Chicken Coop back in Sequim.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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