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border

[bawr-der] / ˈbɔr dər /




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The South later resumed border loudspeaker broadcasts for the first time in six years, including K-pop and international news, while the North began transmitting strange, eerie sounds across the frontier, unsettling South Korean residents.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

Pyongyang said Monday the situation along the two countries' shared border was "grave" and that it was considering deploying additional "tactical strike means" to the area.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

He had campaigned in the south of France, where he held rallies attended by supporters who travelled across the border to see him.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

"If it doesn't go over the wall, it goes under the wall. If it doesn't go through the border, it comes through the top border. This game is about adaptability."

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

By the end of January 1945, the Americans had driven the Germans back to their own border.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

The area borders the vast Rose Atoll marine sanctuary, where endangered species of hawksbill turtle thrive on vibrant reefs.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

The three main Allied victors of World War II met at Yalta in 1945 to carve new European borders after the Nazis’ defeat.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

Iran built up the militias into a self-described Axis of Resistance to project power and keep fighting away from its borders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Original Medicare does not provide coverage beyond U.S. borders, and some Medicare Advantage plans offer only worldwide benefits for emergencies.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Maybe politics and borders were supposed to keep us apart, but David and I built a safe space, a nest where our differences brought us together.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

Our campsite bordered the Fefine, a large river that flows even in the dry season.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

The proposal would create new traffic patterns for ships transiting the strait, which is bordered by Iran on the northern shore and Oman on the southern.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 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 pre-fight feeling was that this occasion bordered on the absurd as a sanctioned world title contest, but Verhoeven went a long way to proving the boxing fraternity wrong.

From BBC ● May 23, 2026

This triangle-shaped area was bordered by water—the Erie Canal, the Genesee River and the Genesee Valley Canal.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

Meanwhile, Chinese cars are already becoming a frequent sight on some U.S. roads, especially in states bordering Mexico.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

MCALLEN, Texas — Vanessa Ovalle has a “frontline view” of Texas schools as a single mom and a speech pathologist at a local school in McAllen, a city in the Rio Grande Valley bordering Mexico.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

Communities across all states bordering Wyoming face darkness, breathing difficulties and roofs collapsing under accumulated ash.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Boundaries are extremely tricky to maintain with people who are insistent and/or bordering on pushy.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

Not real ones, but cutout paper snowflakes, bordering all the chalkboards.

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney


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