twelve-mile limit
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The Nimitz was in international waters, beyond the twelve-mile limit any nation can claim.
From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2019
Pack a lunch, and I’ll see you out past the twelve-mile limit.
From Forbes ● Aug. 17, 2011
The U.S. claims only three miles of ocean as its territorial waters, while Gaddafi insists on a twelve-mile limit.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jarrell was known as "an industrious .and reputable reporter" when the New York Herald Tribune sent him to check a tip that a seaworthy saloon was operating off Long Island, outside the twelve-mile limit.
From Time Magazine Archive
"They were outside the twelve-mile limit," Scotty pointed out.
From Smugglers' Reef by John Blaine
