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border

[bawr-der] / ˈbɔr dər /




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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

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 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

On Friday, De la Espriella sent troops into Cucuta, the main city on the border with Venezuela, due to an increase in attacks in that region.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

I turned around and saw them coming too, two border patrol trucks rolling up the hill with their headlights full force on us.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

The city of Leipzig borders that state, and its historic Gewandhaus Orchestra marked the days preceding the election with a democracy weekend it called “Reading the Signs.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

Uttarakhand, a Himalayan state which borders China and Nepal, is home to some of Hinduism's holiest shrines and attracts millions of pilgrims every year.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 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

But during the few days my parents thought my sister was safely within our country's borders in San Diego, I was terrified for her.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

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

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

The place: Opened in November 2025, One&Only’s first U.S. resort occupies 240 acres, bordered by more than 17,000 acres of permanently protected land.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 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 pre-fight feeling was that this occasion bordered on the absurd as a sanctioned world title contest, but Verhoeven went a long way to proving the boxing fraternity wrong.

From BBC ● May 23, 2026

It forbade Germany to place soldiers in the Rhineland, a wide strip of unprotected German land that bordered France.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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

I spent my lunch period sitting in one of the green fields bordering the school, staring at the simulated scenery while I munched on a protein bar with my visor on.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline


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