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border

[bawr-der] / ˈbɔr dər /




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“I haven’t done anything wrong,” Flint said Saturday at his dining-room table, beside a large window overlooking open water and mountains stretching to the Canadian border.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

The BBC's Dan Johnson reports from the site in the Chernihiv region, near the northern Ukrainian border with Belarus.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

In the southern parts of the cities, closer to the border with Mexico, modest residential homes with green front lawns adorn along palm tree-lined streets.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026

The coordinator of the cybercrime unit at Madagascar's communications ministry, Tsitohaina Ralihivao, drew a connection with a 2025 crackdown on scam compounds in Cambodia near the border with Thailand, when their militaries also clashed.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026

My loose post wasn’t even along the border anymore.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

“In times of sorrow, we are reminded that suffering knows no borders — and neither should compassion.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

The asymmetry of available methods regularly pushes American women across borders to get IUDs not offered in the U.S.; afterward, they share tips for clinics and itineraries with one another online.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026

The agency was created in 2004 to patrol the Schengen visa-free travel area's external borders, fight cross-border crime and manage migratory flows.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

Since the two cases were reported in Kenya and Nigeria this month, Uganda has repeatedly stressed that no cases have been reported within its borders.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Oshiro never knew if he crossed any borders.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge

A lush cactus garden is bordered by Elysian Park, completing Fisher’s vision of the castle in the woods, but done in Southern California’s vernacular.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

The action bordered on farce - even Joe Root attempted a reverse-scoop - yet there was little Duckett could do about a spitter from Sears he fended to first slip.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

Many German commanders, Mr. Hargreaves reveals, felt Rommel favored “speed first, not safety,” and Rommel’s impulsiveness “frequently bordered on recklessness.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

They were walking east to St. John’s Park, which bordered the Red River.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Both Collins and Jackson hail from the same sparsely populated, heavily forested northern county of Aroostook, bordering Canada.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 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

Baby tarpon are abundant in all that labyrinth of mangrove-lined streams and canals bordering the lower third of the western coast of Florida.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson


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