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When the Civil War broke out, the area revealed itself to be “a border county in a border state,” as the local historical museum puts it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

The 38-year-old craftsman from Tangiers dropped everything to head to the border town of Fnideq after hearing via social media that the frontier was open.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

They now only cross the border occasionally to pick up their mail and come back, Rousseau said, avoiding spending any money while there.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

While excoriating the loss of his visa, López Beltrán also painted a dystopian picture of present-day life north of the border.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Backed by Joseph Stalin and the communist government of China, the forces of communist North Korea poured across the border into South Korea.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

Wildberries has not yet confirmed the attack, but said that its facilities in the region, which borders Ukraine, have been evacuated.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

China is already considering similar limits within its own borders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

U.S. officials allegedly devised the ruse after they became concerned about an Iranian threat to target Trump as he left Turkey, which borders Iran.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

Every few decades since its founding a dark and deadly cycle begins, terrorizing the local community, many of whom are unable to survive beyond the island’s borders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

Adah did weird, morbid things for her hope chest, black borders on cloth napkins and the like, which exhausted our mother.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

The place: Opened in November 2025, One&Only’s first U.S. resort occupies 240 acres, bordered by more than 17,000 acres of permanently protected land.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

The KBV, a national association representing statutory health insurance physicians, said that it "bordered on madness" to force thousands of people to visit doctors' surgeries simply to fill in forms.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

But Emerald Bay is gate-guarded, accessible only to residents, and its half-mile stretch of golden sand is bordered by the cliffs of two jutting points, geographically cutting off public access via other beaches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

The cars are connected to charging points by the garages for the flats, which are in traditional red buildings bordered by birch trees and a large golf course.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

He bought them some furniture and gave them some money until José Arcadio recovered his sense of reality and began to work the no-man’s-land that bordered the courtyard of the house.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Mourners dressed in black gathered on Sunday in the pavilion of Wat Lat Pla Duk in Nonthaburi province, bordering Bangkok, where the body of the slain schoolgirl, Naphat Chaima, lay for a ceremonial bath.

From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026

At the Kuchurgan power station, located on the shore of a reservoir bordering Ukraine, she discovers how a facility that once powered a chunk of the former Soviet empire now enables a digital gold rush.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

“The magnitude of revision in growth cluster earnings expectations is bordering on surreal,” they say.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026

The mass raid also killed one person on a ferry and hit an oil terminal in Russia's southern Krasnodar region bordering Crimea, the authorities there said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 21, 2026

“Aliens, yes,” Garret Charles continues, his accent growing thicker by the syllable, and bordering on German.

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle