borderline
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Garcia’s Ford seems not just jealous but borderline apoplectic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Within a legal profession that venerates judges and worships the Supreme Court, this is borderline heresy.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
For Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Andrew Giuliani, the executive director of the White House’s World Cup task force and son of Rudy Giuliani, the borderline call was an injustice that demanded executive intervention.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
The 70-year-old is one of the most respected and influential coaches in the game, and that reputation has been earned from his borderline obsessive dedication to preparation for every single match he oversees.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
Not to mention borderline creepy that I had to escape my own car.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
They move freely, obscuring borderlines between categories that once loomed like separate land masses: jazz and chamber music; acoustic and electric ensembles; songs and improvised forms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
“We don’t know each other and do not publish our own writers inside our continent because of the borderlines of colonial language such as French, English and Portuguese,” he says.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2024
Global warming also has had its way with borderlines.
From Washington Post ● May 7, 2020
The borderlines, announced on 17 August – two days after independence – cut right through these two provinces and caused unforeseen turmoil.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 5, 2017
Such a distribution was artificial but, once made, necessarily influenced the borderlines to the north and south.
From Area Handbook for Albania by Elpern, Sarah Jane
