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borderline

[bawr-der-lahyn] / ˈbɔr dərˌlaɪn /


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“And my daughter fought for a long time with extreme mental health, borderline personality disorder, other things, and did the best she could, until she couldn’t.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 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

Rushing, seemingly not pleased with a borderline check-swing call, argued with Iassogna.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 7, 2026

Carla, in fact, says it's a borderline schizoid response to traumatic cultural displacement.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

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

When Ms Clark had her smear in 2015, the result was negative when it should have highlighted borderlines changes.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2023

Global warming also has had its way with borderlines.

From Washington Post May 7, 2020

When one actually thinks of the behemoth task that was accomplished back then in the planning, designing and implementing of the New York subway, it almost borderlines on magical.

From New York Times Jan. 3, 2018

Such a distribution was artificial but, once made, necessarily influenced the borderlines to the north and south.

From Area Handbook for Albania by Sarah Jane Elpern




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