as in realm
an area of influence, knowledge, or understanding
He readily admitted that the topic was outside of his purview, and anything he said about it would be mere uninformed speculation. As she rose within the company, her purview extended to many new departments.
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Recent Examples of purview
In those instances, plays that would be subject to coach’s challenges are the purview of the Situation Room.
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Sean Gentille, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2026
Traditionally, discrimination investigations have been the purview of Ed’s Office for Civil Rights.
—Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
Sanders and the 444 nonunion members under his purview also took a 6% cut in compensation.
—U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2026
Lamont could work around that problem by shifting additional funds for schools outside of the formal budget and around the purview of the spending cap.
—Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 17 Apr. 2026
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Sean Gentille, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2026
Traditionally, discrimination investigations have been the purview of Ed’s Office for Civil Rights.
—Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
Sanders and the 444 nonunion members under his purview also took a 6% cut in compensation.
—U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2026
Lamont could work around that problem by shifting additional funds for schools outside of the formal budget and around the purview of the spending cap.
—Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 17 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for purview
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Space is the massive, ever-expanding realm beyond Earth’s atmosphere, spanning more than 93 billion light-years in the observable universe.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Apr. 2026
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Former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin got his feet wet in the NFL media realm and made a bold prediction about Aaron Rodgers' future in the league.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
27 Apr. 2026
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This also highlights the importance of basic cyber hygiene like unique passwords and MFA, so that when breaches happen, the scope of impact on your own personal data is contained.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
25 Apr. 2026
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There’s also Title Wave Books in Anchorage, which houses one of the most extensive collections of Indigenous American literature in the country, and Nā Mea Hawai'i, whose collection tightens its scope to Hawaiian culture and history.—
Kat Chen,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Apr. 2026
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Some may even be in the public domain and therefore available from multiple companies to package creatively, although publishers, along with authors and their estates, support long terms of copyright, and further extensions thereof, because this protects the value of the backlist.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
24 Apr. 2026
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In this limbo state, you’re technically admitted to the hospital, but still located in the physical domain of the ER.—
Elisabeth Rosenthal,
Miami Herald,
24 Apr. 2026
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Yet the kind of misrepresentations experienced by Tkachuk and Harris aren’t within the ambit of intimate imagery laws.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
9 Mar. 2026
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When infused with the power of a rising hegemon, those men were capable of actions that expanded their empire’s ambit.—
Alfred McCoy,
Literary Hub,
26 Feb. 2026
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“Purview.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purview. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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