as in scope
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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Recent Examples of ambit
The data and tooling that informs 360 campaigns should be well-defined within the ambit of your governance and compliance frameworks to prevent the compromise of user privacy or the implementation of unfair or biased algorithms.
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Runki Goswami, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
If references and conversations about technology were, until a few years ago, considered either nerdy or relevant only to those who worked within its ambit, nothing currently could be further from the truth.
—Nitin Rakesh, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
The memorandum does not even specify which government programs will fall under its ambit.
—Jill Goldenziel, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
But some critics have long been wary of medicalization as the best path toward an equitable psychedelic revival that ever escapes the medical ambit to make the most of their diverse potentials.
—Oshan Jarow, Vox, 9 Aug. 2024
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Runki Goswami, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
If references and conversations about technology were, until a few years ago, considered either nerdy or relevant only to those who worked within its ambit, nothing currently could be further from the truth.
—Nitin Rakesh, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
The memorandum does not even specify which government programs will fall under its ambit.
—Jill Goldenziel, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
But some critics have long been wary of medicalization as the best path toward an equitable psychedelic revival that ever escapes the medical ambit to make the most of their diverse potentials.
—Oshan Jarow, Vox, 9 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ambit
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Kentucky's incentives are not unusual in their scope compared to other states and are attractive to the industry, experts said, with the potential to shave millions of dollars off the cost of data center development.—
Connor Giffin,
The Courier-Journal,
30 July 2025
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Benjamin Heber Johnson: Honestly, writing a history of this scope is a huge challenge.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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In the realm of the visual, the Renaissance umanisti became humanists in our sense, almost by accident: what the painters learned from the past gave them license to enliven their work with faces, bodies, and desires.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
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Gemini Sun & Rising: Gemini, this week Chiron retrograde in Aries begins a five-month healing journey in the realm of your friendships and social alliances.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
27 July 2025
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The report, released Friday, downplayed the extent of Russian interference in the 2016 election by highlighting Obama administration emails showing officials had concluded before and after the presidential race that Moscow had not hacked state election systems to manipulate votes in Trump's favor.—
Dan Gooding
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 July 2025
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The report, released Friday, downplayed the extent of Russian interference in the 2016 election by highlighting Obama administration emails showing officials had concluded before and after the presidential race that Moscow had not hacked state election systems to manipulate votes in Trump’s favor.—
Eric Tucker,
Chicago Tribune,
22 July 2025
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“Ambit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ambit. Accessed 2 Aug. 2025.
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