noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
narrow
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Rock fall and trampling in the narrow confines of a cave are two major factors.
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We are challenged to rise above the narrow confines of our individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
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In that same instant, the deafening crash of gunfire filled the narrow confines of the alley.
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The higher centers are dormant when we live our lives exclusively within the narrow confines of the personality.
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The new leadership proved more diffuse - beyond the narrow confines of the traditional élite and professional classes - and younger.
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The narrow confines of the inner solar system seem claustrophobic compared to the asteroid belt.
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We were jammed together, shoulder-to-shoulder, in the narrow confines .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Hypothetical thinking goes beyond the confines of everyday experience.
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She felt trapped by the narrow confines of the convent.
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We must operate within the confines of the law.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But, fortunately, interviewers had difficulty restricting employees to the confines of the standard interview questions.
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Rock fall and trampling in the narrow confines of a cave are two major factors.
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Sea Gladiator Faith in her restored form inside the somewhat cramped confines of the Museum.
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Sometimes, when the clouds were stretched more thinly, the confines of their world extended.
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The noise was deafening in the small confines of the workshop.
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These two processes are continuous throughout the vast confines of the Universe.
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Within the confines of the steel hull the interference was less.