How to Use bounded in a Sentence

bounded

adjective
  • This way, there’s a bounded space of queries and tasks that employees can work with.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Flying was a rare, bounded period of time untethered from the world below.
    — Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2026
  • They are limited in scope, supervised closely and based on bounded data.
    — Stephane Gervais, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • Start small and run experiments, such as applying for a first grant or running a bounded peer-to-peer campaign.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Run a bounded pilot around one outcome rather than reorganizing the whole company at once.
    — Thomas Lim, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • For Cusk, freedom involves wriggling out of the social and historical integuments that enclose a person into a bounded self.
    — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Beloved ’s revenant defies the dictates of realism according to which a character is a bounded individual.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Barkaoui’s research shows that rules developed for bounded systems do not automatically apply to unbounded ones.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Dec. 2025
  • In regulated industries, the best systems are understandable, bounded and unashamedly honest about their own boundaries.
    — Anthony Spadaro, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Shibari, or Japanese rope bondage, is a beautiful art form, blending technique and creativity, where knots are carefully designed, and the bounded body is the canvas.
    — Literary Hub, 17 June 2026
  • Civilizationists would aim to structure the world along bounded civilizational spaces, each dominated by a hegemon.
    — Leonard A. Schuette, Foreign Affairs, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Other mathematicians, however, point out that past performance does not guarantee future returns, because an unbounded fluid is nothing like a bounded one.
    — Quanta Magazine, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Yet, until now, key mathematical rules governing these operators lacked a rigorous foundation beyond bounded cases.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Dec. 2025
  • The products are one-megawatt-hour bounded futures and binary options, listed across the next 120 delivery hours, launched under a direct-access, fully collateralized model.
    — Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • In a July 3rd social media post, the company announced that autonomous vehicles were available in a bounded area, largely comprised of West Miami.
    — Sarah Perkel, USA Today, 14 July 2026
  • Where previous generations related to a specific, bounded nostalgia, the post-internet era recycled everything at once, all decades available for simultaneous revival, none of them pointing forward.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2026
  • To ensure safety and predictability, health systems should have guardrails, including human oversight, that define a bounded action space, enforce policy checks, maintain immutable audit trails, set per-step service expectations and mandate sandbox testing before any change moves into production.
    — Dr. Taha Kass-Hout, Forbes.com, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Research presentations, panels, working groups, and late night discussions unpacked a range of AI fears and fantasies with many practical and bounded conversations about the future of journalism and how to use AI and generative engine optimization (GMO) to improve curricula.
    — Emil Steiner, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025

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