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borderland

[bawr-der-land] / ˈbɔr dərˌlænd /


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At the ceremony, hitmaker and songwriter Edgar Barrera, who grew up in the same borderland area, said that Intocable “showed the world what música mexicana could be.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

The crime writer Don Winslow has repeatedly followed his characters into the wild borderland between law and crime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

Then the slippery borderland between fact and fiction, and the perils of ignoring just how slippery it is.

From Salon ● May 7, 2025

The Ukrainian borderland has long been a place where cultures merge and interchange.

From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2024

Mercy lay on some remote borderland between sleep ing and waking.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare


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