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

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

Ostensibly to protect its deep-sea fishery from the depredations of foreign commercial fleets, Ecuador claims that its territorial waters extend 200 miles offshore�something of a stretch beyond the usual twelve-mile limit.

From Time Magazine Archive

"They were outside the twelve-mile limit," Scotty pointed out.

From Smugglers' Reef by Blaine, John