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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

Language is developed continuously from such facts, and thus is explained how, "beyond the general concept of expressive movement, there is no specific quality which delimits language in a non-arbitrary manner."

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce

The sonata actually lies on different planes, proceeds from various directions, delimits a solid form, makes even Beethoven's seem flat and two-dimensional by contrast.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld

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

Cayo Santiago’s current generation of macaques, numbering around 1,700 animals, is descended from 409 monkeys that were brought from India in 1938 by a researcher who hoped to monitor their behaviors in a delimited space.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 30, 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

Of his subsequent duties in delimiting the new Bessarabian frontier and his miraculous career in China we cannot speak in detail.

From The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) by John Holland Rose