borderline
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Chicago Fed boss Austan Goolsbee told PBS Newshour the reading was "another distressing report, borderline disturbing".
From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2026
Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee called the consumer price data “another distressing report, borderline disturbing.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
Many drivers agreed that conditions were borderline in the extreme.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
The first walk, to Turang, included a borderline ball four call.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
They grew quickly and could be harvested within a few months of sowing, a big advantage for incipient farmers still on the borderline between nomadic hunters and settled villagers.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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
Nevertheless, in the last few years, the borderlines of acceptable looking have become blurred.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 27, 2019
When one actually thinks of the behemoth task that was accomplished back then in the planning, designing and implementing of the New York subway, it almost borderlines on magical.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2018
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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