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boundaries

CEFR: B2

Lines that mark the limits of an area, academic discipline, or allowable social behavior (plural).

Synonyms

frontiers
perimeters

Common Collocations

push the boundaries
set boundaries
geographical boundaries

Example Sentence

Interdisciplinary research breaks down traditional departmental boundaries between physics and computational biology.

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