selvages

noun

plural of selvage
as in frontiers

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  1. frontiers
  2. restrictions
  3. borderlands
  4. limitations
  5. measures
  6. extents
  7. maxima
  8. terminations
Noun
  • Cognitive intelligence could allow Washington to unlock the frontiers of scientific discovery, from materials science to pharmaceuticals.
    — NIALL FERGUSON, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026
  • This may become one of the most important frontiers of AI governance.
    — Nicola Sfondrini, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of frontiers
Noun
  • Foot-and-mouth disease spreads rapidly among livestock and can force mass culling, movement restrictions, and trade disruptions.
    — Robert Kelly, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Nine senators from both parties have asked the Pentagon’s inspector general to investigate the Starlink episode, while lawmakers across the aisle have condemned the speed restrictions.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of restrictions
Noun
  • The new version continues Musgraves’ exploration of the musical traditions that connect Texas, country music and the Mexican-American borderlands — a theme that runs throughout her latest Lost Highway album, Middle of Nowhere.
    — SPIN Staff, SPIN, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Trail cameras captured new images of Cinco the jaguar, one of five jaguars known to have roamed southern Arizona's borderlands.
    — Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of borderlands
Noun
  • However, limitations in communication geometry can leave gaps in how missiles receive information from battlefield sensors.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2026
  • For arrivals willing to submit to the experimental, ever-evolving social structure, and to the limitations that were placed on newcomers, the technologically superior Eiquans professed an indifference that amounted to a willing welcome.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of limitations
Noun
  • Health, finance and transport ministers will meet next week with regional organizations invited, to discuss national and cross-border measures.
    — Ruben Nyanguila, semafor.com, 23 Oct. 2026
  • French President Emmanuel Macron said such measures aim to protect city centers, businesses and public buildings.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of measures
Noun
  • But all five nations also maintain significant commercial and diplomatic links with Russia and, to varying extents, China and Iran, a fact that Rubio acknowledged.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Our politics, cultures, and wars manipulated by America to varying extents.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of extents
Noun
  • If a prescription costs $500 through insurance but $100 through Cost Plus Drugs, patients should be able to take the cheaper route and have that spending count toward their deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums.
    — Emma Witman, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
  • In parts of Europe with a danger of rockfall or avalanche, there are often minimum speed limits rather than maximums.
    — Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of maxima
Noun
  • The complaint adds to the growing list of legal challenges to the mass terminations under FBI Director Kash Patel of agents who participated in investigations of the Republican president or are seen as opposed to Trump administration interests.
    — Eric Tucker, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
  • All of this makes the recent terminations tricky for OpenAI and shows that safety disclosures are still very much at the whims of the labs.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of terminations
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