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hemmed in



ADJECTIVE
enclosed
Synonyms


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Shaped roughly like a triangle, Kuwait is hemmed in by Iraq, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

The freedom of full-time travel often seems to strike a chord with people who feel hemmed in by jobs and mortgages, family commitments and responsibilities.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

Instead, it was a wide, empty street hemmed in by police barricades and a few enormous screens.

From Slate • Jan. 3, 2026

He spent two nights there, exhausted and hemmed in by the weather.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2025

Colonel Cathcart felt hemmed in on every side.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller




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