verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In the middle of the drawing was a circle circumscribed by a square.
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The church's role was tightly circumscribed by the new government.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All matter in the universe is encased in a spherical shell with clearly circumscribed boundaries.
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But they are still highly circumscribed in their authority, and wholly dependent upon their salaried employment.
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He could hardly be more circumscribed.
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Otherwise, each had separately recognized, the future was circumscribed.
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Their autonomy, it is true, was carefully circumscribed.
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Travel is only one of many instances of circumscribed existence.
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Without ciphers and diplomatic bags, espionage and counter-espionage actions were likely to be circumscribed.