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ambits

noun

plural of ambit

as in realms

an area over which activity, capacity, or influence extends many feel that church leaders stray outside of their proper ambit when they make specific political endorsements

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Noun

And even without the holodeck, genres are fluid things that often take from each other to tell stories within each other’s realms.

— Matthew Razak, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2026
The idea of treating Oregon on the same plane as some of the great fantasy realms from my youth like Narnia and Oz and Middle Earth was crazy to even think about.

— Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of realms

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Confining Employees To Rigid Roles As a business grows, team members with rigid, constrained scopes may stop working or supporting others outside their existing scope.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 15 Oct. 2026
These involve a cancer screening test, followed by a surgical procedure involving robotic scopes.

— Tara Molina, CBS News, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of scopes

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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

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The current design conversation is reframing them as intentional styling tools, which should push manufacturers toward better fabrics, cleaner fits and broader color ranges.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2026
To his point, expanding size ranges does involve investment in pattern-making, grading, sampling, production, and inventory planning.

— Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of ranges

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The researchers also explored more exotic scenarios involving additional spatial dimensions and theories that extend beyond Einstein’s general relativity.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026
North Carolina State University But the new robot can maneuver in three dimensions using a few elastic limbs and just two actuators.

— Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2026

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