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circumscribed

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verb

past tense of circumscribe

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for circumscribed
Adjective
  • The doughnut chain has announced a new Craving Cheesecake Collection of doughnuts, sold individually and by the dozen, available for a limited time starting April 22.
    Mike Snider, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Fewer Chinese young people will likely be studying in the West, and the already small number of Westerners who do so in China will remain limited.
    RANA MITTER, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • As a result, access to affordable healthcare is restricted.
    Ariel Katz, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The war was mostly fought around the Great Lakes and in Canada, but conflict wasn’t restricted to the north.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The values were not defined for respondents but left to their own interpretation.
    Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2025
  • The parties and their counsel need to recognize that courts typically don’t understand commercial real estate finance and often don’t care about the nuances of how the parties allocated or defined certain risks.
    Joshua Stein, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • On the flipside, global competition for access to finite resources and to dominate the next generation of growth industries—clean energy, grid resilience, electric vehicles, sustainable food solutions—is redrawing supply chains, trade agreements, and geopolitics.
    John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
  • There is no consensus on a finite list of neurodivergent conditions.
    Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 4 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The Lhasa block, bounded by fault-lines, forms southern Tibet.
    Joe Cash and Gopal Sharma, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The Lhasa block, bounded by fault-lines, forms southern Tibet.
    Joe Cash and Gopal Sharma, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • On Saturday, the narrow field caused both teams to adapt to tighter spaces and quicker play.
    Felipe Cardenas, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2025
  • In a narrow scope, medical marijuana could benefit people, Redman said.
    Carolyn Komatsoulis, Idaho Statesman, 18 Apr. 2025
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“Circumscribed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/circumscribed. Accessed 27 Apr. 2025.

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