delimited
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A lower-risk zone with a 20km radius has also been delimited.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2026
It was designed to corral a small group of suspects within a delimited space, thereby reducing the number of variables the writer needed to juggle and the reader to remember.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
Cayo Santiago’s current generation of macaques, numbering around 1,700 animals, is descended from 409 monkeys that were brought from India in 1938 by a researcher who hoped to monitor their behaviors in a delimited space.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 30, 2023
It’s a funny line, but it’s also as if he has delimited the four-year age window within which his situation will cease to be amusing.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2023
That is, there is no item in an outline, no branch of a tree, no unit of discourse that consistently corresponds to a block of text delimited by a blank line or an indentation.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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