borderland

Example Sentences

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Crawford takes readers to ancient Greece, to the remote borderlands between city-states such as Athens and Boeotia, Sparta and Argos.

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“I don’t think it’s in our interest to be getting into a proxy war with China, getting involved over things like the borderlands or over Crimea,” DeSantis said on Fox News.

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And when DeSantis talks about “the borderlands” I guess he means the eastern Donbas region, which Putin has “annexed” but which lies within Ukraine’s internationally recognized borders.

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The National Unity Government says it now controls half the country’s territory, although most of that is in the hands of armed ethnic groups that have long battled the military in remote borderlands.

From New York Times

Because the borderland is where the forces of the wood and the forces of the open meet: “It is not a place of rest, but of activity.”

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