- past tense form of circumscribe.
- past participle of circumscribe.
circumscribed
Example Sentences
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In between are Egyptian vultures, which use rocks to crack open ostrich eggs—genuine tool use—but when presented with rocks and chicken eggs simply cannot figure out what to do, suggesting a rather circumscribed “intelligence.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Yet this project’s geography is circumscribed, its borders hedged.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025
As per the country's own observations, the fund had limited ability to do something about the loan, and was "circumscribed by procedural and technical formalities".
From BBC ● May 14, 2025
So circumscribed is our behavior that airline employees sometimes refer to passengers as “self-loading cargo.”
From Slate ● Mar. 14, 2025
His conjecture that the orbits of the planets are circumscribed by the five platonic solids were no more supported by Tycho’s data than by Copernicus’.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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