as in realm
an area of influence, knowledge, or understanding
He readily admitted that the topic was outside of his purview, and anything he said about it would be mere uninformed speculation. As she rose within the company, her purview extended to many new departments.
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Recent Examples of purview
Is tragicomedy likewise the purview of those who are comfortably removed from the world’s worst horrors?
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Eugenie Brinkema,
ARTnews.com,
14 June 2026
Missile launches under the Army and Navy’s purview had shifted to SLC-46.
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Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 June 2026
The distinction is in determining which slice of the work is irreplaceable and the main purview of humans, and which slices can be delegated to AI.
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Amanda Gerut,
Fortune,
12 June 2026
Yet, the directive’s influence will likely stretch far beyond the purview of the GSA.
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Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
12 June 2026
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Eugenie Brinkema,
ARTnews.com,
14 June 2026
Missile launches under the Army and Navy’s purview had shifted to SLC-46.
—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 June 2026
The distinction is in determining which slice of the work is irreplaceable and the main purview of humans, and which slices can be delegated to AI.
—
Amanda Gerut,
Fortune,
12 June 2026
Yet, the directive’s influence will likely stretch far beyond the purview of the GSA.
—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
12 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for purview
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Telepathy has long resided in the realm of science fiction and fantasy, from X-Men’s Professor X to Star Trek’s Vulcan mind meld to Stranger Things’ Eleven.
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Nothing more than wanting to protect his mother and protect the realm.
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The analyst sees scope for further penetration of this tool as advertisers using the product are increasing spending at nearly twice the rate of non-users.
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Tensions peaked over what many Venezuelans viewed as an inadequate response by the government, whose soldiers, firefighters, police and military cadets were evidently underprepared to respond to the scope of the tragedy.
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From its earliest days, Anthropic identified coding as the most important domain in AI to focus on.
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With the success of Kpop Demon Hunters, Netflix is bringing feature animation squarely under the domain of Hannah Minghella.
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Yet the kind of misrepresentations experienced by Tkachuk and Harris aren’t within the ambit of intimate imagery laws.
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When infused with the power of a rising hegemon, those men were capable of actions that expanded their empire’s ambit.
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