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It did not say who launched the drone aimed at Shaybah oil field near the UAE border.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
Catherine Breed, 33-year-old endurance swimmer, emerged from the water on Monday after crossing the latitude of the California-Mexico border and became the first person to swim the length of California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Although vaccines are being tested, there is no approved vaccine or cure for the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, and its spread to four countries has exposed gaping holes in preventive measures, including border surveillance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
The odds are not lost on Nixon, who campaigned last week in Monticello, on the Georgia-Florida border, about 45 minutes outside of Tallahassee.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
It bounced into the border on the edge of the stones.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
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Carney, the former central banker who grew up in Alberta, is now Canada's builder-in-chief – at home, and beyond its borders.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
The area borders the vast Rose Atoll marine sanctuary, where endangered species of hawksbill turtle thrive on vibrant reefs.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
Sloan’s stylistic range reflects a music industry in which the borders between genres have never been more porous.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
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
There in the Hornburg at Helm’s Gate Erkenbrand, master of Westfold on the borders of the Mark, now dwelt.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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A lush cactus garden is bordered by Elysian Park, completing Fisher’s vision of the castle in the woods, but done in Southern California’s vernacular.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Our campsite bordered the Fefine, a large river that flows even in the dry season.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
The KBV, a national association representing statutory health insurance physicians, said that it "bordered on madness" to force thousands of people to visit doctors' surgeries simply to fill in forms.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
Many German commanders, Mr. Hargreaves reveals, felt Rommel favored “speed first, not safety,” and Rommel’s impulsiveness “frequently bordered on recklessness.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
He bought them some furniture and gave them some money until José Arcadio recovered his sense of reality and began to work the no-man’s-land that bordered the courtyard of the house.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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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
India is stepping up monitoring of its Himalayan regions bordering China and Nepal, days after the deadly flood apparently triggered by a glacial collapse.
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
Madison did need to come up with at least three votes on assumption—here Jefferson's account is accurate—and eventually four members switched their votes, all of them congressmen from districts bordering on the Potomac.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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