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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
In the city of Khabarovsk, about 20 miles from the Chinese border, lab workers from Irkutsk and elsewhere in Russia and China spent three days reviewing best practices to fight infectious diseases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
But the data still shows a surge in voting by some counties on the border with Mexico, which are comprised of more than 90% Hispanic people.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
At dawn someone called out that we were passing through the border town of Emmerich.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Post-punk, darkwave and gothic rock crossed borders from Europe into the Americas during the 1970s and 1980s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 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
Here, on the borders of death, life follows an amazingly simple course, it is limited to what is most necessary, all else lies buried in gloomy sleep;—in that besides our primitiveness and our survival.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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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
Another model that Iran and other Persian Gulf nations are examining is in the Strait of Malacca, which like Hormuz is a global energy chokepoint bordered by more than one country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 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 indigo bodice was bordered with a thin line of gold, and an ice-white cape hung from her shoulders.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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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
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
He suffered, in the words of one of his few biographers, from shyness to a "degree bordering on disease."
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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