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
Last week the Supreme Court, after hearing the argument of able Assistant U. S. Attorney General Mabel W. Willebrandt, held the capture legal, despite its having taken place outside the twelve-mile limit.
From Time Magazine Archive
Best shot: the floating cabaret outside the twelve-mile limit, peopled by police spies and surrounded by well-drilled policemen in speedboats.
From Time Magazine Archive
"They were outside the twelve-mile limit," Scotty pointed out.
From Smugglers' Reef by John Blaine
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