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Recent Examples of demarcateWhen Weber and Finger started paying attention to celebrity gossip in the 2000s, glossy magazines reliably demarcated legitimate stars from up-and-comers.—Annie Aguiar, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025 With her recent looks, Brown demarcates the precocious child actor from the adult woman.—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2025 Its south is demarcated by Lake Kivu.—Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025 Multiple mountain ranges that demarcate the disparate communities of Los Angeles County create picturesque settings for homes—in dangerous proximity to scrub that is prone to catching fire.—Andrew Moseman, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for demarcate
This was bricolage in the mode of postmodernism, to use a term that Jencks had a leading role in propagating, defining it in multiple competing and overlapping (some would say maddening) ways.
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