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Lithuania, a Nato member, shares a land border with the Russian enclave of Kaliningad.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
"People in the Donbas, as well as in Bryansk, and Belgorod near the Ukrainian border, hear this kind of thing every day," says a voter called Viktor, who has exited the polling station.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
The kingdom needs to decide if it will seek de-escalation in hopes of ensuring quiet on its southern border or if its red lines have truly been crossed, necessitating a strong military response.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 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
But I can tell by Father’s yearning voice he wants Caesar to come—all the way to the border, across the Red River.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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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
However, as Gabriel has an EU passport, it is possible he will be allowed to join a club within European Union borders on his 16th birthday.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
"Weather respects no borders, and this is especially true for water," Saulo said, arguing for the importance of "shared data, shared standards and shared early warnings".
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
And a town not too far from where you live has a law that bars me from coming within five miles of its borders.
From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket
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To make the cabinets her own, she took inspiration from Danish flower paintings and began hand-painting pink flowers against a white background on the fronts, allowing them to be bordered by the original brown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Our campsite bordered the Fefine, a large river that flows even in the dry season.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
Once widespread across northern England and Scotland, habitat loss has caused significant decline in the dark bordered beauty.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 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
But Lillian Meecham was looking at the houses that bordered River Street.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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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
Iraq said it had fired a military commander and launched an investigation after admitting the drone attack on its neighbour's East-West pipeline had originated in one of its provinces bordering Iran.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 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
Tall and fair, with blue-green eyes, sandy hair streaked-by the sun, and a lean and comely body, Gerris Drinkwater had a swagger to him, a confidence bordering on arrogance.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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