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
The family shame around Mitchell’s violent death prevented me from understanding his full legacy, and ultimately circumscribed the meaning of his life and art.
From Slate • Jun. 6, 2025
Coolidge had attracted attention with an earlier documentary about her family, but “Not a Pretty Picture” led a curiously circumscribed existence.
From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2024
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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