as in defining
to mark the limits of
the highway delimits the eastern edge of the downtown area
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For customers and investors this might mean a lot more opportunities to build generation-defining companies without facing fundamental limits to scaling.—
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Fortune,
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Saudi Arabia’s beauty sector is undergoing a transformation that is both commercially significant and culturally defining.—
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20 May 2026
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“Delimiting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/delimiting. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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