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"People in the Donbas, as well as in Bryansk, and Belgorod near the Ukrainian border, hear this kind of thing every day," says a voter called Viktor, who has exited the polling station.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Helicopters, dog units and members of the public began scouring the area, close to the River Stour on the Suffolk-Essex border.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
She says she would expand intelligence-sharing with Washington, work with U.S. agencies and the Coast Guard against drug trafficking and coordinate with Colombia to dismantle criminal groups on the border.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
This reinforces other polls that have found that Michigan voters oppose the Canada border taxes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
We arrived at the southern border in March, and, boy, is it warm!
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
Globalization opens up markets, and deregulation across state lines lets people expand across state borders.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
When Germany's finances are in trouble and the country turns inward because of a political crisis, the knock-on effect beyond its borders can be considerable.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Health systems must be capable of coordinating quickly when outbreaks spread across borders.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Iran’s land borders were a mess before these latest closures, though.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The roads were paved with stone-flags, dark and hard; and beside their borders instead of trees there marched long lines of pillars, some of marble, some of copper and of iron, joined by heavy chains.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
Our campsite bordered the Fefine, a large river that flows even in the dry season.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
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 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
The pre-fight feeling was that this occasion bordered on the absurd as a sanctioned world title contest, but Verhoeven went a long way to proving the boxing fraternity wrong.
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
Some scraggly pink geraniums, marigolds, and spindly poinsettia plants, Lupita’s gardening efforts, bordered the front of the house.
From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty
Boundaries are extremely tricky to maintain with people who are insistent and/or bordering on pushy.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
He has won six out of the seven counties bordering the lake in all of his three presidential runs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
It’s going to raise costs particularly in states that are either bordering or in close proximity to Canada and rely on trade with it.
From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2026
His men loved him for it, their devotion bordering on religious.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
From inside the bungalows bordering the plateau and jutting out over the water, we could hear the rattling of plates and silverware.
From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
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