circumscribed
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In human terms, it is an emotional and costly undertaking, circumscribed by science, chance and luck.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
Yet this project’s geography is circumscribed, its borders hedged.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025
The family shame around Mitchell’s violent death prevented me from understanding his full legacy, and ultimately circumscribed the meaning of his life and art.
From Slate • Jun. 6, 2025
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 • May 14, 2025
His conjecture that the orbits of the planets are circumscribed by the five platonic solids were no more supported by Tycho’s data than by Copernicus’.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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