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border

[bawr-der] / ˈbɔr dər /




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The border continues to be a challenge, though.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

They have histories of border disputes and even military confrontations.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

Tech hubs across the border in mainland China, such as Alibaba's hometown of Hangzhou, are expanding far faster, spurred by AI investors such as Deepseek and Unitree Robotics.

From Barron's Sep. 13, 2026

Sbarounis said he goes fishing about 120 days of the year, between May and November, from the Mexico border up to Point Conception, and off shore about 100 to 150 miles.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2026

Meanwhile, he continued finding weak spots in the border and leading people under the wire.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

Another 2.7 million fled across the borders into neighboring nations.

From Slate Sep. 11, 2026

The previously permeable borders of the U.S. tightened.

From Salon Sep. 11, 2026

Though some literary professionals expressed fears of ghettoization, many welcome these new entities as necessary to fight bias, foster new writers and serve readers of Jewish and Israeli books across borders.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

The air, amber-hued and treacle-thick, is smudged under a blanket of smog that has spilled across international borders – to Singapore, Manila, Kuala Lumpur.

From BBC Sep. 6, 2026

Seeking security in military superiority, they recruited ever larger armies and navies, piled up more and more of the latest new weapons, and built wider and stronger fortifications along their national borders.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

Our campsite bordered the Fefine, a large river that flows even in the dry season.

From Science Daily Aug. 28, 2026

Once widespread across northern England and Scotland, habitat loss has caused significant decline in the dark bordered beauty.

From BBC Aug. 14, 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 plantings had, by then, expanded from the hothouse to a plot of land by the abbey—a twenty-foot-by-hundred-foot rectangle of loam that bordered the refectory, visible from his room.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

He gained a reputation for courage bordering on recklessness, ever-present in frontline trenches and personally leading expeditions to clear mines.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

Dolly Rebecca Parton was born Jan. 19, 1946, in a two-room cabin in Pittman Center, Tenn., a town bordering Gatlinburg, Tenn., and the Great Smoky Mountains.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

The 12,700-square-foot mansion in Fair Oaks — an unincorporated community in Sacramento County bordering the American River — has been listed for $7.5 million.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

I made my way down the riverwalk, the long path bordering the waterfront, trying to ignore the villagers who plugged their noses as they passed.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate




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