border
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“But the threat across the border right now gives us some time to reach our cruising speed.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
"But I can also see on the map, there's really nowhere else that Raphoe can go other than with Derry in terms of the border that it shares."
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
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
What was the border patrol guarding that was so valuable?
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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Globalization opens up markets, and deregulation across state lines lets people expand across state borders.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
The findings reveal a disease that repeatedly crossed borders, evolved into new lineages, followed human movement, and continued shaping Europe for centuries after the Black Death itself had ended.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
When the modern state of Israel was formed in 1948, much of the Arab population that remained inside its borders continued to identify as or with Palestinians.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
The same thing is happening at Iran’s land borders with Turkey, Turkmenistan and Afghanistan, dealing Tehran a self-inflicted blow and stifling trade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
He’d been traveling for twelve years between Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, the Philippines, Japan, Austria, and other countries, clearing customs and crossing borders without incident.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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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 KBV, a national association representing statutory health insurance physicians, said that it "bordered on madness" to force thousands of people to visit doctors' surgeries simply to fill in forms.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 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 graveyard faced east, all the stones and markers laid out in a fan shape bordered with saw palmetto and evergreen trees.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
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Boundaries are extremely tricky to maintain with people who are insistent and/or bordering on pushy.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
Ceuta is a Spanish autonomous city on the North African coast, bordering Morocco and separated from mainland Spain by the Strait of Gibraltar.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 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
Dolly Rebecca Parton was born Jan. 19, 1946, in a two-room cabin in Pittman Center, Tenn., a town bordering Gatlinburg, Tenn., and the Great Smoky Mountains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
When he looked up at me, I recognized Matt—stocky, red-cheeked, a lot older and nearly bald with a fringe of gray hair bordering the sides of his head—but still Matt.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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