as in realms
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 purviews
Corporate Functions · COO Courtney Armstrong, CFO Mark Badagliacca, EVP Human Resources Talia Robinson, and EVP Global Communications & Media Relations Brooke Robertson are expanding their respective purviews to encompass PTVS, in addition to their current roles at Paramount Pictures.
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Jennifer Maas, Variety, 30 Oct. 2025
Other Paramount Pictures executives who will expand their purviews to include PTVS oversight include COO Courtney Armstrong, CFO Mark Badagliacca, EVP Human Resources Talia Robinson, and EVP Global Communications & Media Relations Brooke Robertson.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2025
Jennifer Maas, Variety, 30 Oct. 2025
Other Paramount Pictures executives who will expand their purviews to include PTVS oversight include COO Courtney Armstrong, CFO Mark Badagliacca, EVP Human Resources Talia Robinson, and EVP Global Communications & Media Relations Brooke Robertson.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for purviews
Noun
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In their own realms, General Relativity and the Standard Model can each lay claim to be the most successful physics theory of all-time.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
24 Mar. 2026
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Only spacecraft that are small enough to be battery- or solar-powered, such as the Voyager and Juno missions, have reached these outer realms of our solar system.—
Claire Cameron,
Scientific American,
24 Mar. 2026
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ProPublica reviewed records of that meeting, providing a rare look at a dramatic shift underway in one of the most sensitive domains of public policy.—
Avi Asher-Schapiro,
ProPublica,
24 Mar. 2026
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Should companies like Google be required to automatically block lookalike domains that pretend to run official security checks before people fall for them?—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
21 Mar. 2026
Noun
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July 23 – August 22 When feelings meet courage, horizons widen.—
Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
19 Mar. 2026
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The model was designed to be scalable and consistent across brands and time horizons, so that portfolio updates did not require rebuilding logic from scratch each cycle.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
18 Mar. 2026
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The sisters' ensembles, which varied slightly from each other, were two-piece sets of crop tops and shorts or miniskirts with clusters of transparent spheres layered over nude fabric.—
Ashley Hume,
FOXNews.com,
16 Mar. 2026
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In the late 19th century Ludwig Boltzmann modeled [gas molecules] as little billiard balls—little hard spheres that are bouncing around.—
Tim Folger,
Scientific American,
16 Mar. 2026
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“Purviews.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purviews. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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