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Recent Examples of demarcate
Its south is demarcated by Lake Kivu.
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Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Multiple mountain ranges that demarcate the disparate communities of Los Angeles County create picturesque settings for homes—in dangerous proximity to scrub that is prone to catching fire.
—Andrew Moseman, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2025
The body creates a coiling pattern, demarcating 20 squares or spaces.
—Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
Although the current appellation system didn’t come into effect until 1936, the wine growing boundaries of Moulin-a-Vent were first demarcated in 1924.
—Paul Caputo, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Multiple mountain ranges that demarcate the disparate communities of Los Angeles County create picturesque settings for homes—in dangerous proximity to scrub that is prone to catching fire.
—Andrew Moseman, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2025
The body creates a coiling pattern, demarcating 20 squares or spaces.
—Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
Although the current appellation system didn’t come into effect until 1936, the wine growing boundaries of Moulin-a-Vent were first demarcated in 1924.
—Paul Caputo, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for demarcate
define
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Clean lines, classic shapes and unexpected edges define Jade Ruzzo jewels.—
Anthony DeMarco,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2025
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This was bricolage in the mode of postmodernism, to use a term that Jencks had a leading role in propagating, defining it in multiple competing and overlapping (some would say maddening) ways.—
Glenn Adamson,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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