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(noun) the scope, extent, or bounds of something

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ambit



within the phenomenal ambit of a noumenal subject

—p.279 LA 2019: Demopathy and Xenogenesis (275) by Iain Hamilton Grant
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6 years, 6 months ago


But recall to this abstraction's ambit prenominate stuff

—p.113 The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress (73) by David Foster Wallace
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6 years, 11 months ago


in her narrow Flagstaff ambit, with most of the country’s young men overseas, his apparition at Nativity had been as singular to her as hers was to him

—p.436 by Jonathan Franzen
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1 year, 8 months ago


The degree to which new cultural forms transfigured and expanded the ambit of politics itself was perhaps the dominating issue which possessed us

—p.241 by Stuart Hall
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2 years, 9 months ago


I have been living in Turin since 1945, always in the ambit of the Einaudi publishing house, for which I started to work by selling books on hire purchase

—p.8 Questionnaire, 1956 (7) by Italo Calvino
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2 months, 2 weeks ago


within the ambit of Marx at his most accelerationist

—p.64 by Benjamin Noys
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6 years, 4 months ago


food critics have historically sought to divide their ambit into tiers within which similar appraisals can be organized

—p.130 Dinner with Schmucks (126) by The Baffler
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3 years, 11 months ago


which falls outside the ambit of nonconsensual or obviously coercive sex but which nevertheless is both unwelcome and unwanted

—p.73 Manufacturing Consent (56) by Chris Lehmann
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5 years, 5 months ago


The general critique of cultural imperialism stays within a narrow ambit, because it is only the elite or the urban sections that have access to the symbolic and material items that enter the Third World

—p.81 Tehran (75) by Vijay Prashad
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5 years, 4 months ago

My ambit is much briefer

—p.xi Acknowledgements (xi) by Vijay Prashad
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5 years, 4 months ago

the darker nations should aspire to nothing more than a strictly local ambit

—p.40 Bandung (31) by Vijay Prashad
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5 years, 4 months ago


lapse back into the ambit of philosophy, since there is no third way between philosophy and revolution

—p.17 Changing the World: From Praxis to Production (13) by Étienne Balibar
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6 years, 7 months ago