How to Use exclusive economic zone in a Sentence

exclusive economic zone

noun
  • Japan said five of the missiles landed in its exclusive economic zone waters.
    — Rhoda Kwan, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Five of the missiles landed in the exclusive economic zone off Japan’s coast, the first such occurrence.
    — Edward Wong, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Some of these create exclusive economic zones where one country has access to the fish stocks; there are also some large oceanic preserves.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2020
  • The missile landed in the sea in Japan's exclusive economic zone, about 100 miles from its coast.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The missiles fell in waters outside of Japan’s exclusive economic zone.
    — Fox News, 26 May 2022
  • The missile landed outside Japan’s exclusive economic zone, far from land.
    — Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The Chinese planes’ flight path crossed Malaysia’s exclusive economic zone but not its national air space.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Japan said North Korea had launched a ballistic missile that flew far enough to fall in its exclusive economic zone.
    — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Two were within the Danish exclusive economic zone while the third is in the Swedish equivalent.
    — Jan M. Olsen and Patrick Whittle, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Japan said both missiles had landed outside its exclusive economic zone and that no damage had been reported to aircraft or vessels in the area.
    — Stella Kim, NBC News, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Five ballistic missiles launched as part of the drills landed inside Japan's exclusive economic zone.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Turkey doesn't recognize Cyprus as a state and claims 44% of the island's exclusive economic zone as its own.
    — Menelaos Hadjicostis, Star Tribune, 30 July 2020
  • It is located about 125 miles off the coast of the Philippines and is within its exclusive economic zone.
    — Mike Brest, The Washington Examiner, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The area is within the Philippines' 200-mile exclusive economic zone.
    — Reuters, CNN, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Its anchor was lowered when it was discovered in Finland’s exclusive economic zone.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Strong winds pushed it away from the Chinese coast, where the collision happened, and into Japan's exclusive economic zone.
    — Author: Chen Aizhu, Muyu Xu, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Two of the four leaks were discovered in Sweden's exclusive economic zone, while the other two were in Danish waters.
    — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Niue was one of the first countries in the world to commit to protecting 100 percent of its ocean waters as an exclusive economic zone.
    — Terry Ward, AFAR Media, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The latest launch didn’t appear to have landed in Japan’s maritime exclusive economic zone, a spokesman for the Tokyo government said.
    — Timothy W. Martin, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Fast Most countries control fishing or have agreements to share rights within a 200-mile exclusive economic zone around their coasts.
    — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 14 June 2018
  • The episode came less than a week after North Korea launched a missile that landed off Japan’s coast, also in its exclusive economic zone.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2019
  • In the year that followed the furor over the Galápagos, the bulk of the Chinese fleet kept a greater distance from Ecuador’s exclusive economic zone.
    — Claire Fu, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2022
  • And yet each year growing numbers of Chinese commercial ships, thousands of miles from home, fish here, at times right on the edge of Ecuador’s exclusive economic zone.
    — Claire Fu, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Japan’s Defense Ministry said the weapons landed in waters outside the country’s exclusive economic zone.
    — ABC News, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Japan's Defense Ministry said the missile fell outside of its exclusive economic zone, and its coast guard reported no damage to vessels in the area.
    — Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The damage occurred in Estonia’s exclusive economic zone, police said.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2025
  • The missile appeared to have landed inside Japan’s exclusive economic zone, which extends about 200 nautical miles from the coast.
    — Dasl Yoon, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The feature lies within the Philippine exclusive economic zone but is under China's effective control.
    — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • On the first day of the drills last week, five Chinese ballistic missiles fell into Japan’s exclusive economic zone east of Taiwan, the first time any had landed in those waters.
    — Mike Ives, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Tensions have been high as a Turkish seismic survey ship has searched for natural gas over the last two weeks in an area of the Mediterranean that Greece says is within its exclusive economic zone.
    — Selcan Hacaoglu, Bloomberg.com, 28 Aug. 2020

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