as in defining
to mark the limits of
the highway delimits the eastern edge of the downtown area
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Urbana always had a conservative bent, but its politics have become a defining feature in the intervening years.—
Grace Byron,
New Yorker,
22 Oct. 2025 -
Here, teachers aren’t supposed to tell students that the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 — a defining incident of racial violence in Oklahoma history — was perpetrated by racists.—
Jennifer Smith Richards,
ProPublica,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Delimiting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/delimiting. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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