demarcate

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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

These demarcate dates at which relative power-unit performance will be assessed, with those trailing by more than specific amounts of performance given the chance to undertake extra development.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

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

From Science Daily • Feb. 14, 2024

The second, published in Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity on Nov. 30, took those qualitative findings and attempted to demarcate four discrete subtypes or pathways for detransition.

From Slate • Dec. 1, 2023

Some thinkers have identified the two, while others regard Epistemology as a subdivision of logic; others demarcate their relative spheres by confining logic to the science of the laws of thought, i.e. to formal logic.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various