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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
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“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
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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
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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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