circumscribe
Example Sentences
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In human terms, it is an emotional and costly undertaking, circumscribed by science, chance and luck.
Early Renaissance sculptors went to school on works like this, learning from them how to tell a complex story on a flat surface within a circumscribed area.
In total, Trumpism models limited, circumscribed versions of citizenship and political belonging known as blood and soil nationalism, where racial stock determines human worth, rights and citizenship.
From Salon
Yet this project’s geography is circumscribed, its borders hedged.
From Los Angeles Times
As per the country's own observations, the fund had limited ability to do something about the loan, and was "circumscribed by procedural and technical formalities".
From BBC
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