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an area over which activity, capacity, or influence extends
many feel that church leaders stray outside of their proper ambit when they make specific political endorsements
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Recent Examples of ambit
Last year, it was announced that the paper would no longer issue endorsements in local elections, and the ambit of the excellent Metro section has narrowed considerably.
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Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
For enterprise users, Canva has expanded its ambit to include access management, Secure Single Sign-On integrations, and bulk content creation tools like Magic Studio at Scale which auto-generates campaigns using data templates.
—Anisha Sircar, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
The issue before us is whether his mere claim of extraordinary harm justifies this court's immediate review, which would essentially remove the legal issues from the district court's ambit before its proceedings have concluded.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 17 Feb. 2025
The data and tooling that informs 360 campaigns should be well-defined within the ambit of your governance and compliance frameworks to prevent the compromise of user privacy or the implementation of unfair or biased algorithms.
—Runki Goswami, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
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Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
For enterprise users, Canva has expanded its ambit to include access management, Secure Single Sign-On integrations, and bulk content creation tools like Magic Studio at Scale which auto-generates campaigns using data templates.
—Anisha Sircar, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
The issue before us is whether his mere claim of extraordinary harm justifies this court's immediate review, which would essentially remove the legal issues from the district court's ambit before its proceedings have concluded.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 17 Feb. 2025
The data and tooling that informs 360 campaigns should be well-defined within the ambit of your governance and compliance frameworks to prevent the compromise of user privacy or the implementation of unfair or biased algorithms.
—Runki Goswami, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ambit
Noun
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Every 10 years, after a long debate about the scope and parameters of public funding for the BBC and the issuing of white papers, a charter for its continual operation is submitted to the Sovereign, now King Charles III, for the royal seal of approval.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
10 Nov. 2025
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The training program at Base Aeronaval Cristóbal Colón, formerly known as Fort Sherman, is relatively small in scope but is expected to ramp up over the next year, according to one defense official.—
Anne Flaherty,
ABC News,
10 Nov. 2025
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At Sportico’s Invest in Sports conference, industry leaders discussed how their businesses have entered new territories, built new lines of business, embraced fresh investment strategies and even considered entering into the realm of the absurd.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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This quiz will test your knowledge of the strange, shadowy realm of dark matter.—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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Looking back at the original, Wright’s film often seems more like a restoration project than a remake, to the extent that the director has taken a bold step away from the quaint comedy that peppers his British movies.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
11 Nov. 2025
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In Arise, all of this is pushed to the furthest extent.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
11 Nov. 2025
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“Ambit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ambit. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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