- past tense form of circumscribe.
- past participle of circumscribe.
circumscribed
Example Sentences
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As recently as the noncooperation movement in 1920-22, women played a far more circumscribed role.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
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.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025
So circumscribed is our behavior that airline employees sometimes refer to passengers as “self-loading cargo.”
From Slate ● Mar. 14, 2025
In a place long circumscribed by disaster, Bass is facing a catastrophe with financial and logistical burdens that will likely dwarf the combined fallout from the 1994 Northridge earthquake and the 1992 civil unrest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2025
It is, rather, a blessedly circumscribed imagination and an intuitive feeling that Life is Now.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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