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Recent Examples of demarcate
Instead, Yoo provides pearls of thoughtful surrealist images on a long string, a new sentence only demarcated by a capital letter.
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Diana Arterian,
Literary Hub,
14 May 2026
The book portrays the city as a liminal metropolis where the line demarcating business and crime has been worn faint by heavy footfall from both directions.
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Mark O’Connell,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
The treaty specified that a survey team, comprising both Americans and Mexicans, would demarcate the border between the two countries.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
10 Apr. 2026
Voyager 1 is nestled in the space demarcated by that stellar pyramid.
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Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
19 Jan. 2026
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Diana Arterian,
Literary Hub,
14 May 2026
The book portrays the city as a liminal metropolis where the line demarcating business and crime has been worn faint by heavy footfall from both directions.
—
Mark O’Connell,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
The treaty specified that a survey team, comprising both Americans and Mexicans, would demarcate the border between the two countries.
—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
10 Apr. 2026
Voyager 1 is nestled in the space demarcated by that stellar pyramid.
—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
19 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for demarcate
define
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As a coastal town shaped by generations of immigrants, Half Moon Bay now has a new art display that serves as a reminder of the people and stories that continue to define the community.
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In the absence of an official investigation, the incident last September has been magnified, and perhaps embellished, in the minds of veterans living on the campus, a community defined by the vulnerability of physical disability, substance use and trauma.
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