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borderline

[bawr-der-lahyn] / ˈbɔr dərˌlaɪn /


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“This is the era of Claude and self-driving cars, and it’s just borderline embarrassing—for me, at least—to be lugging around a multivitamin bottle,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

"In the face of cutbacks in preventative services and huge waiting lists, what's happening is those grey cases, those borderline cases, more of those children are coming to care," Broadhurst explains.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 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

"For patients at borderline risk, knowing their calcium score can help determine whether their risk is actually lower or higher than initially estimated, which can help guide treatment decisions," Shah explained.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026

My grades and scores put me at the borderline.

From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin

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

Global warming also has had its way with borderlines.

From Washington Post ● May 7, 2020

The borderlines, announced on 17 August – two days after independence – cut right through these two provinces and caused unforeseen turmoil.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 5, 2017

Fitzgerald's Jazz Age was a time when the borderlines between the fortunes of the elite and the spoils of organised crime were blurred and shifting.

From BBC ● May 31, 2013

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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