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In March, the military reported that a border police officer was injured and a security vehicle was damaged during an attack by a group of Israelis in the West Bank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
She built a house in the nearby dusty, bustling town of Musina near the Zimbabwean border, confident that diamonds would provide a brighter future for her two children.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Last year, Paxton reported the Oklahoma lodge, just north of the Texas border, as worth between $100,001 and $250,000.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
Rescuers have pulled two people from a tunnel at the Trishuli 3A Hydropower Project in Nepal more than a week after a massive flash flood devastated the Nepal-China border.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
What was the border patrol guarding that was so valuable?
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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The two share a similar cultural background, one forged by migration, changing borders and centuries of history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Google, followed by Apple, renamed the Great Lake, which borders New York state and Canada’s Ontario province, for U.S. users.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
“The picture behind our borders is that all their focus is on Ukraine,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
The 532-member group chat, called "Traders of Greater Europe", was used to arrange cash transfers across borders for their clients, including to British cities such as Birmingham and London.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
Sometimes a herd of cows grazed on this land, or a man on horseback rode the borders, a sombrero shading his face, his shirt stained yellow with sweat.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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Our campsite bordered the Fefine, a large river that flows even in the dry season.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
The place: Opened in November 2025, One&Only’s first U.S. resort occupies 240 acres, bordered by more than 17,000 acres of permanently protected land.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 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
Ruined walls bordered a square courtyard about the size of a tennis court.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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It’s going to raise costs particularly in states that are either bordering or in close proximity to Canada and rely on trade with it.
From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2026
His men loved him for it, their devotion bordering on religious.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
But what has really put Sequoia on the marmot-shenanigans map is their all-out assault on the parking lots bordering trailheads in the Mineral King Valley—one of the wildest parts of the park.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The two countries, both coastal states bordering the strait, have sought to hammer out a plan to regulate transit through it, as laid out in a June US-Iran memorandum of understanding.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
The flowers swayed in the cool afternoon breeze as I strolled through the garden toward the bushes bordering the main verandah.
From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed
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