many feel that church leaders stray outside of their proper ambit when they make specific political endorsements
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If references and conversations about technology were, until a few years ago, considered either nerdy or relevant only to those who worked within its ambit, nothing currently could be further from the truth.—Nitin Rakesh, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025 The memorandum does not even specify which government programs will fall under its ambit.—Jill Goldenziel, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024 But some critics have long been wary of medicalization as the best path toward an equitable psychedelic revival that ever escapes the medical ambit to make the most of their diverse potentials.—Oshan Jarow, Vox, 9 Aug. 2024 Whatever the reason—gold lust, bad luck, a malediction—the Prince de Conty continues to bring ill fortune upon those in its ambit, even two hundred and seventy-eight years after its demise.—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for ambit
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Etymology
borrowed from Latin ambitus "circuit, circumference, strip of ground around the outside of a building," from ambīre "to visit in rotation, surround, encircle" + -tus, suffix of action nouns — more at ambient entry 1
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