buffer zone
noun
: a neutral area separating conflicting forces
broadly
: an area designed to separate
Examples of buffer zone in a Sentence
There must be a 500-foot buffer zone between the river and the new buildings.
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British India faced Soviet Central Asia across the Wakhan Corridor, a strip of Afghanistan only eleven miles wide at its narrowest points, which in 1893 had been designated the buffer zone between the Russian and British Empires.
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Dorothy Armstrong
june 18, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
Israeli forces have destroyed vast areas of Gaza, displaced about 90% of its population and in recent weeks have transformed more than half of the coastal territory into a military buffer zone that includes the now mostly uninhabited southern city of Rafah.
—Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2025
Russia recently expanded its attacks on Sumy and the Kharkiv region after Putin's promise to create a buffer zone along the border that might prevent long-range Ukrainian attacks from hitting Russian soil.
—Arkansas Online, 4 June 2025
Those conditions include paying the remainder of the $130,000 in fines owed to the county, having 24-hour security on site and building a 25-foot buffer zone between the shelter and its neighbors with landscaping, a ditch and a concrete wall.
—Michael Cuglietta, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 June 2025
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Dorothy Armstrong
june 18, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
Israeli forces have destroyed vast areas of Gaza, displaced about 90% of its population and in recent weeks have transformed more than half of the coastal territory into a military buffer zone that includes the now mostly uninhabited southern city of Rafah.
—Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2025
Russia recently expanded its attacks on Sumy and the Kharkiv region after Putin's promise to create a buffer zone along the border that might prevent long-range Ukrainian attacks from hitting Russian soil.
—Arkansas Online, 4 June 2025
Those conditions include paying the remainder of the $130,000 in fines owed to the county, having 24-hour security on site and building a 25-foot buffer zone between the shelter and its neighbors with landscaping, a ditch and a concrete wall.
—Michael Cuglietta, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for buffer zone
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“Buffer zone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/buffer%20zone. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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