borderline
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To say the tree cutting was “cleaning up,” she said, “is borderline farcical.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
The first walk, to Turang, included a borderline ball four call.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Ross Kemp was so happy it came out as borderline anger, with a vein-popping "get in there!"
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
"Member states have increased their defence expenditure for a borderline country like Finland. That's a good thing," Stubb said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
The idea is to make myself look like someone who’s spent the night in a regular home with kitchen and washer and dryer, not like someone who’s borderline homeless.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
They move freely, obscuring borderlines between categories that once loomed like separate land masses: jazz and chamber music; acoustic and electric ensembles; songs and improvised forms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
When Ms Clark had her smear in 2015, the result was negative when it should have highlighted borderlines changes.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2023
Global warming also has had its way with borderlines.
From Washington Post ● May 7, 2020
Nevertheless, in the last few years, the borderlines of acceptable looking have become blurred.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 27, 2019
It is no objection to this view if there are borderlines for the dream where its function, to preserve sleep from interruption, can no longer be maintained—as in the dreams of impending dread.
From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Sigmund Freud
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