demarcate

To demarcate the borders of his $15 million deal, Jefferson sent out a Corps of Discovery—including young U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

In the other months of the year, rainbow bunting and rainbow crosswalks still demarcate LGBTQ+ businesses and historic gayborhoods, creating a visual map of the queer world.

From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2024

Like their Jedi namesake, Skywalker gibbons cannot swim, so rivers tend to demarcate their species boundaries.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 14, 2024

He also expressed hope that Bhutan and China will be able to demarcate some of its boundaries in a meeting or two.

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2023

French stamps provide a very interesting record of the political changes in the country, and provide one of the best illustrations of how stamps demarcate the periods of a nation's history.

From The Postage Stamp in War by Fred. J. Melville

The Yellow Line demarcates territory in Gaza still under Israeli control under the ceasefire deal.

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026

The so-called yellow line demarcates the boundary inside the Gaza Strip that Israeli troops have withdrawn behind, as part of the US-brokered ceasefire.

From Barron's ● Nov. 20, 2025

Language is often assumed to be the quality that demarcates human singularity, Dr. Dehaene noted, but perhaps there is something that is more basic, more fundamental.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2022

The grassy edge that usually demarcates the outline of a bunker was so trampled down Johnson assumed it was a footpath.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2021

The Devils Thumb demarcates the Alaska-British Columbia border east of Petersburg, a fishing village accessible only by boat or plane.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

At the Corwen end, the grass path runs through private pieces of land which are demarcated on the path with fencing and stiles, over which travellers need to be able to climb.

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026

The border in the area is porous and poorly demarcated, which contributed to Lebanese nationals settling in Syria and facilitated the smuggling for which the region is known.

From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026

What was once a regional sport with deep roots and clearly demarcated borders has morphed into a sprawling battle where geography and tradition have been pushed into the background.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2025

In a decade of crossing and re-crossing, Papi treated the border and the fences that demarcated it like an exercise in prepositions: He went around it, through it, above it, below it, past it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024

The different prose styles are not sharply demarcated, and many kinds of writing blend the different styles or alternate between them.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Indigenous leaders say its return highlights the importance of demarcating their ancestral lands to keep their traditions alive.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2024

This episode establishes them as spiritual sisters while demarcating how they differ.

From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2023

The Parakana credit him for demarcating their reserve in 2007, ending a decade-long struggle for land rights.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2022

Lebanon hopes that demarcating maritime borders will pave the way for gas exploration to help lift it out of its crippling economic crisis, which has plunged three-quarters of its population into poverty.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2022

The light flickered over the paper as the old woman crouched down and stared at the lines demarcating the Great Wood, the river Nir, the Kell.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo