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verb

past tense of demarcate
as in defined
to mark the limits of a bright yellow line demarcated the county on the road map

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for demarcated
Adjective
  • And a subway car is a confined space where there may be no easy way to escape danger.
    James Barron, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The most conspicuous example is the open-air winter sculpture garden at the center of the residence, an intimate, confined courtyard that allows art and nature to coalesce.
    Troy J. McMullen, Architectural Digest, 9 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • In steps Jeff Grimes to build on some of the passing concepts Longo installed while restoring the physicality that defined the Badgers for decades.
    Jesse Temple, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Andrew Garfield, an actor who has defined the notion of being a modern leading man with feelings, thinks cinemagoers should be free to show their emotions without apology.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Robotic demonstrations still rely on algorithms set for specialized tasks in bounded situations.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 19 July 2021
  • What Franzen’s narrative method suggests is a reality in which relatively coherent and bounded psyches look out onto a world that offers them a range of choices for action and meaning; the psyches select from these options, and later on repent of or are grateful for their selections.
    Alan Jacobs, Harper's Magazine, 28 Sep. 2021
Adjective
  • Support In a meeting with the U.S. House of Representatives' select committee on China earlier this week, McCourt and his co-bidder Kevin O'Leary received assurances that lawmakers on both sides of the U.S. political aisle are committed to ensuring a qualified divestiture.
    Krystal Hu, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Employee Retention Credit Eligible employers are those that paid qualified wages to some or all employees after March 12, 2020, and before Jan. 1, 2022.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2025
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