borderline

Example Sentences

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"I've had to make decisions about my health, where you are on the borderline between right or wrong," Nadal said.

From BBC • May 29, 2026

“If consumers were compelled to live within their means, real consumer spending right now would be in a borderline recessionary state,” writes veteran economist David Rosenberg, head of Rosenberg Research.

From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026

The chicken warms gently in the pan, soaking it up, and suddenly you have a dinner that feels borderline dinner-party-adjacent.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026

It sounds borderline insane to consider that the only available team in America’s second-largest market might not be worth as much as the team that just sold in America’s 30th-largest market.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 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