borderland
Example Sentences
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“Autobiography of Cotton” is the story of a consequential labor strike carried out in the early mid-20th century in the borderlands of northern Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times
The auditor said his office’s most recent deep dive began with a tip about Thomas Dozler, an Agriculture Department manager whose duties included patrolling Nebraska’s borderland in the F-150.
The government said this week it was moving the last remaining families from the camp in Syria’s remote borderlands with Iraq to another displacement camp in northwestern Syria, where the state has stronger infrastructure.
The base helped the U.S. put pressure on the extremists in a broad stretch of desert near Syria’s borderlands with Jordan and Iraq.
The crime writer Don Winslow has repeatedly followed his characters into the wild borderland between law and crime.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
