buffer zone
Example Sentences
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Developer Mitsui Fudosan plans a "green buffer zone" of up to 78 metres with trees and a stream, reducing the noise, the heat and the "oppressive feeling", said project manager Toshitsugu Jouzuka.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
That route, called the Traffic Separation Scheme, established one 2-mile-wide lane for entering and one 2-mile-wide lane for leaving the Persian Gulf, plus a 2-mile-wide buffer zone.
From MarketWatch ● May 5, 2026
He added that the buffer zone needed to remain to "block the danger of invasion".
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
The military is trying to carve out a buffer zone inside Lebanon deep enough to put border communities beyond the militants’ reach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
All of these things are possible: we’ve both reached that borderline age, that buffer zone in which it can still be believed such tricks will work if you avoid bright sunlight.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
