borderland
Example Sentences
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The crime writer Don Winslow has repeatedly followed his characters into the wild borderland between law and crime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
Understanding its past as a perennial borderland is essential to knowing how it became the crucible of one of the most bitter disputes in modern history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
“You can crack down on these symptoms and the manifestations … that you can see in the borderland areas,” he said, “but they’ll come back unless you really have a sustained effort.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 22, 2023
Recently, the site and its mysteries have been drawing record numbers of visitors to this place near the provincial capital of Sanliurfa in the borderland with Syria — 850,000 in 2022.
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2023
Mercy lay on some remote borderland between sleep ing and waking.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
