as in to define
to mark the limits of the highway delimits the eastern edge of the downtown area

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Recent Examples of delimit The search was reinforced in the area delimited by the previous flights. Escher Walcott, People.com, 3 May 2025 Master the art of delimiting information Separating information properly affects your results significantly. Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025 Some of those words must remain embedded in Prosecco Superiore, the legal term tied to DOCG to indicate both zones precisely delimited by notions of quality, grapes, culture, history, and soils. Susan H. Gordon, Phd, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024 Infatuation opens his characters to, and delimits the extent of their participation in, the world. Brandon Sanchez, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024 Some of those words must remain embedded in Prosecco Superiore, the legal term tied to DOCG to indicate both zones precisely delimited by notions of quality, grapes, culture, history, and soils. Susan H. Gordon, Phd, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024 After the initial burials, the cemetery, which was delimited by ditches and the road, became more densely populated toward the end of the first century B.C. and the start of the first century A.D., officials said. Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2024 One task will be delimiting the ocean, which some researchers think could exist in multiple layers, separated by high-pressure species of ice. Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 5 Apr. 2023 His message is clear: people in developing countries should adopt free markets, strictly delimit the role of the state, promote liberal democratic institutions , ensure the provision of basic education and healthcare and welcome open discussion of issues. Edward Webster, Quartz, 2 June 2021
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  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defined a heat wave as a period of abnormally and uncomfortably hot and usually humid weather that lasts at least two days.
    Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
  • To define these guardrails, organizations should: • Implement reinforcement learning techniques with human feedback to continuously review and reward the LLMs for good behavior.
    Rakshana Balakrishnan, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025

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“Delimit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/delimit. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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