borderland
Example Sentences
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The crime writer Don Winslow has repeatedly followed his characters into the wild borderland between law and crime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
The Ukrainian borderland has long been a place where cultures merge and interchange.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2024
Much of Southern California finds itself near that bump-and-grind intersection of the North American and Pacific plates, whose borderland we know as the San Andreas fault.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2024
“You can crack down on these symptoms and the manifestations … that you can see in the borderland areas,” he said, “but they’ll come back unless you really have a sustained effort.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 22, 2023
Mercy lay on some remote borderland between sleep ing and waking.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
