circumscribed
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As recently as the noncooperation movement in 1920-22, women played a far more circumscribed role.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025
Early Renaissance sculptors went to school on works like this, learning from them how to tell a complex story on a flat surface within a circumscribed area.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025
Yet this project’s geography is circumscribed, its borders hedged.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025
Three years after the pandemic forced the majority of Oscar season to take place on Zoom, Hollywood may be facing another circumscribed awards circuit.
From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2023
It is, rather, a blessedly circumscribed imagination and an intuitive feeling that Life is Now.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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