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Tokyo and Manila said late May they would start formal talks to "delimit the maritime boundary" of their exclusive economic zones and continental shelf between them.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

Congress took steps to delimit presidential discretion, the court said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

One can see this playing out today in the rules for citizenship, voting and other mechanisms that serve to define and delimit participation in democratic politics.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2023

The two men also agreed that by the end of April they would set up a bilateral commission to delimit the joint border, the statement said.

From Reuters ● Apr. 6, 2022

The second is missing the commas that delimit the phrases making up the list of inspirations: cooking, her family, and her dog.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

The Comoe River clearly delimits part of the northeastern frontier between Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso -- but the land border is poorly demarcated.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025

The phenomenon in which an initial antibody response to a virus dominates and delimits the response to later strains of the same virus is called "immunological imprinting," or "original antigenic sin."

From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2024

“The government must affirmatively prove that its firearms regulation is part of the historical tradition that delimits the outer bounds of the right to keep and bear arms,” Justice Thomas wrote.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 23, 2022

And there is no limit which pre-exists to the line by which the constituent and legislative power of the State delimits the sphere subject to its sanctions.

From The Reform of Education by Gentile, Giovanni

It delimits our frontier in such a way as to extend our suzerainty over the entire desert of El Skrub.

From Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels by Leacock, Stephen

A lower-risk zone with a 20km radius has also been delimited.

From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2026

It was designed to corral a small group of suspects within a delimited space, thereby reducing the number of variables the writer needed to juggle and the reader to remember.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

It’s a funny line, but it’s also as if he has delimited the four-year age window within which his situation will cease to be amusing.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2023

“We must fix the flaws in our public health system, empower scientific leadership to take proactive actions and have a delimited framework for how to use blunt tools when all other options are exhausted.”

From Washington Times ● May 3, 2021

That is, there is no item in an outline, no branch of a tree, no unit of discourse that consistently corresponds to a block of text delimited by a blank line or an indentation.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

One task will be delimiting the ocean, which some researchers think could exist in multiple layers, separated by high-pressure species of ice.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 5, 2023

To date, only 11 percent of people to have ever reached the Kármán boundary delimiting the earthly from the ethereal have been women.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 10, 2021

What’s so remarkable about its use in Portrait of a Lady on Fire is the way the song embodies its own meaning, creating and delimiting a liberating space right at the film’s center.

From Slate ● Dec. 10, 2019

And how can kids find their way into something mature and complex if we are always delimiting for them what they should believe?

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2019

The principle of natural selection cannot have been the chief factor in delimiting the species of animals and plants.

From Evolution An Investigation and a Critique by Graebner, Theodore