borderline

Example Sentences

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She bristles when she realizes some dentists are using AI images to upsell patients—deploying color-coded overlays to dramatize borderline findings and justify questionable treatments.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

“If consumers were compelled to live within their means, real consumer spending right now would be in a borderline recessionary state,” writes veteran economist David Rosenberg, head of Rosenberg Research.

From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026

"It is a difficult – borderline existential – balancing act for Spotify," says Robert Prey, who studies streaming platforms at Oxford University's Internet Institute.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026

The chicken warms gently in the pan, soaking it up, and suddenly you have a dinner that feels borderline dinner-party-adjacent.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026

“Pageant stuff,” Adina said, forcing herself to sound extrachipper and borderline stupid, the tone that disarmed people, made them think you weren’t a threat.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray