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border

[bawr-der] / ˈbɔr dər /




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“We lost our beaches and our trails within two weeks,” resident Rebecca Schwarz lamented as she stood with her partner, Todd, and their border collie, Bodie, surveying the Norte fire’s damage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

"Now the situation of the southern border is very unstable," Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said in a statement.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

He had campaigned in the south of France, where he held rallies attended by supporters who travelled across the border to see him.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

"If it doesn't go over the wall, it goes under the wall. If it doesn't go through the border, it comes through the top border. This game is about adaptability."

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Duane watched him pick up a small, thin piece of wood and apply splotches of different colored goo along the border.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

The three main Allied victors of World War II met at Yalta in 1945 to carve new European borders after the Nazis’ defeat.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

Countries accustomed to receiving great numbers of aspiring young people from beyond their borders may have to learn to do with fewer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

North Korea also sealed its borders during the Covid-19 pandemic, and train journeys between the East Asian neighbours only restarted in March after a six-year halt.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Experts say the retreat of glaciers can cause glacial lakes to expand, increasing the risk of sudden, potentially devastating floods that can cross borders into countries such as Nepal, India and Bhutan.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

For all of our differences down here on Earth, for the first time we were able to see a vision of humankind that didn’t have any borders.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

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 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

I jumped to the side of the road, swung over the stone wall, and cut across the pasture to the next stone wall, which was bordered by a line of trees.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

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

The countryside was striking from here, a deep green sweep of playing fields and bordering shrubbery, with the school stadium white and miniature-looking across the river.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles


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