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Example Sentences

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Product designers are coming up with novel ways to rouse deep sleepers that border on diabolical, including clocks that deliver 300-volt electric shocks and donate snoozers’ money to charity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

Afghanistan's Taliban government said it had launched an offensive on Pakistani military bases near the border on Thursday night.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

If the Dodgers’ spending habits border on satire to you, well, the Onion got there first.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026

A French cyclist freed after weeks in Russian jail for illegally crossing the border on Monday described his time in the country as a "rather strange experience" but said the Russians he met were "friendly".

From Barron's • Oct. 27, 2025

It bounced into the border on the edge of the stones.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott