confines
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One of the greatest lessons of adulthood took place in the quiet confines of my apartment kitchen.
From Salon • Jun. 7, 2026
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
Because I was trying to free her from the confines of her life?
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
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