circumscribe
Example Sentences
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Perhaps anyone could guess as much, but what a layman might never know without Stanford’s book is that our busy roads severely circumscribe the territory cougars can roam, leading to isolation and inbreeding.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2024
The charter provision does not appear to circumscribe that investigative authority for the department’s highest-ranking officer, the police chief.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 13, 2023
Those who ban books seem to want to circumscribe empathy, reserving it for a limited circle closer to the kind of people they perceive themselves to be.
From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2022
Howlers typically start at dusk and end hours later, following desolate fire roads that circumscribe an area known to contain wolves.
From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2021
It is my wish to state it with precision and circumscribe its limits here at the very start.
From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille
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