Example Sentences
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A lower-risk zone with a 20km radius has also been delimited.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2026
It was designed to corral a small group of suspects within a delimited space, thereby reducing the number of variables the writer needed to juggle and the reader to remember.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
Cayo Santiago’s current generation of macaques, numbering around 1,700 animals, is descended from 409 monkeys that were brought from India in 1938 by a researcher who hoped to monitor their behaviors in a delimited space.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 30, 2023
“A scientist’s explanations about other animals are dictated by the data she collects, which are influenced by the questions she asks, which are steered by her imagination, which is delimited by her senses,” Yong writes.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2022
That is, there is no item in an outline, no branch of a tree, no unit of discourse that consistently corresponds to a block of text delimited by a blank line or an indentation.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
