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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
Gerson Arias, an analyst with the policy group Ideas for Peace Foundation in Bogotá, Colombia, said the military pressure on both sides of the border is causing communications problems for the ELN.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
Savda Ghevra was established in 2006 on farmland near Delhi's border with Haryana state, to house families displaced from elsewhere in the city.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
The exercise is scheduled to last from November 9 to 22 in southeast Poland not far from the Ukrainian border, involving 2,800 troops.
From Barron's ● 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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“In times of sorrow, we are reminded that suffering knows no borders — and neither should compassion.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
The family crossed into Argentina via the Tancredo Neves International Bridge in Misiones province, a remote area where the borders of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
Seeking security in military superiority, they recruited ever larger armies and navies, piled up more and more of the latest new weapons, and built wider and stronger fortifications along their national borders.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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The evacuation zones include a swath of hillside neighborhoods bordered by the 5 Freeway, Ortega Highway and Avenida La Pata.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Our campsite bordered the Fefine, a large river that flows even in the dry season.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 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
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
It was plain pine, like Chucha wanted it, but inside, Mami had it lined in purple cushiony fabric, which was Chucha's favorite color, and bordered with white eyelet.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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At the movies, the PTSD-suffering veteran is a familiar figure, bordering on cliché.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 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
There was a ragged strip of grass bordering the street, and as Jake walked along the ground seemed to rise nearer to his face.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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