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borderland

[bawr-der-land] / ˈbɔr dərˌlænd /


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The festival’s third-place Jury Prize went to the borderland German drama “The Dreamed Adventure,” directed by Valeska Grisebach.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 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

“You can crack down on these symptoms and the manifestations … that you can see in the borderland areas,” he said, “but they’ll come back unless you really have a sustained effort.”

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 22, 2023

Another setback for the Allies was taking place along the Isonzo River in Austria’s mountain borderland, where Italian and Austrian armies had been battling since the summer of 1915.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman


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