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- verb Present participle of
delineate .
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Examples
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Both Orwell and Koestler were masterful in delineating the difference between tyrannical regimes of the past and 20th century totalitarian states like Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union under Stalin.
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Both Orwell and Koestler were masterful in delineating the difference between tyrannical regimes of the past and 20th century totalitarian states like Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union under Stalin.
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Both Orwell and Koestler were masterful in delineating the difference between tyrannical regimes of the past and 20th century totalitarian states like Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union under Stalin.
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Both Orwell and Koestler were masterful in delineating the difference between tyrannical regimes of the past and 20th century totalitarian states like Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union under Stalin.
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I shall be interested in delineating the exact nature of the debate in which she is involved, suggesting the reasons for her interest in the emergent science of the mind, and its consequences for her aesthetic.
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If our problems today were merely economic or political, and if the rivalries between two great, young and developing national entities, namely the United States and Soviet Russia, were merely questions of bargaining for relative advantages in delineating spheres of influences within which each could leave the other one alone - one could say that the problem is relatively simple.
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That is a loaded term delineating a willingness to discriminate against a whole raft of people based on anyone not believing the same way you do.
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His hours were spent in delineating the plan of the hostile city; in debating with his generals and engineers, on what spot he should erect his batteries; on which side he should assault the walls; where he should spring his mines; to what place he should apply his scaling-ladders: and the exercises of the day repeated and proved the lucubrations of the night.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Even Paul noted that, in the context of Jesus' followers, labels delineating people by gender, ethnicity and the like no longer matter.
Christian Piatt: This, Too, Shall Pass: Southern Baptists, Women And The NIV Bible Christian Piatt 2011
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Marion's brutal murder had overshadowed Breathard's call delineating his failure to take care of Wolf Matheson.
Black Blade Lustbader, Eric Van 1992
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