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borderland

noun as in border

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Instead, scientists want to study the borderlands between humans and wildlife, where encroaching settlements and development are increasing the odds of a virus spilling over.

From Vox

Equipped with paramilitary gear and lugging their weapons through the rough borderlands, militiamen sought to track down immigrants crossing the border, sometimes detaining them.

From Time

Namwali Serpell calls William Hope Hodgson’s “The House on the Borderland,” first published over a century ago, “one of the most startling accounts of infinity that I’ve ever read.”

In many respects, these remote and geopolitically volatile borderlands might seem like an unlikely place to seek solutions for the crisis of travel in the covid era.

For people living in borderlands, those emotions are often negative.

This borderland—the interface of human activity and wild habitat—is the most dangerous region of all for bears.

But as the excellent blog Borderland Beat says, “Remember this is Mexico and anything can happen.”

Perhaps he also hopes he can keep Ukraine as a borderland instead of having it join NATO.

When the latest Russian aggression ends, Ukraine will still be a borderland caught between East and West.

Ukraine needs to embrace its historic role, not to mention its strategic reality, as a borderland.

The feeble loyalty of the native regiments at Lucknow sufficed to keep all the borderland of Nepaul quiet for nearly two months.

This high lonely butte stands on the borderland between the country of the Pawnees and the country of the Dakotas.

He felt that he had reached the land—or at least the borderland—of Bohemia, that Ultima Thule of every young literary dream.

It rather occupies a kind of borderland between them, coming under the head of philanthropy.

But even in this borderland He cannot be hid; and when the sick and needy throng around Him, He cannot turn away from them.

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On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to borderland, such as: boundary, edge, fringe, frontier, march, and marchland.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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