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The district he represented was massive: from below San Francisco to the Nevada border, and 500 miles south to the Mexican border.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
Going after Colombian groups on the border is part of this year’s new phase of cooperation between the two countries, said John Polga-Hecimovich, who teaches Latin American politics and military matters at the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
The movement also seems to be gathering adherents along the central western border, with upcoming votes in Warren, Henderson and McDonough counties.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
This will also allow for the necessary alignments for the linking of the UK emissions trading scheme with the EU's, and save the need for UK exporters to pay the EU's new carbon border tax.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
In the border was a small rock that had a word carved on it — dream.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
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The months-long blazes have engulfed huge tracts of land and produced air pollution that has harmed human health, drifted across borders and frayed Indonesia's ties with its neighbours.
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
Long queues form at the city's borders as vehicles are stopped and checked, leaving commuters stuck in traffic for hours.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
But when a menace appears on its borders, states see the urgency of deciding quickly on the best security approach, without the inevitable burden of the multilateral compromise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Suazo said she really took to heart the event’s theme, focusing on the mention of suffering having no borders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
Some days, they walked so deep that Ivy forgot there was anything beyond the forest’s borders, and she emerged from its shadows puzzled to find Poppy Cottage standing just where she’d left it that morning.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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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
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
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
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Earthquakes are rare in Panama and usually occur in the western Chiriqui province, bordering Costa Rica.
From Barron's ● 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
Sula stopped and with her toe pushed them into the bordering grass.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
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