borderline
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"For patients at borderline risk, knowing their calcium score can help determine whether their risk is actually lower or higher than initially estimated, which can help guide treatment decisions," Shah explained.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
The Aston Martin car seems to be a midfield-level chassis now, somewhere around the borderline of getting into the final part of qualifying, depending on circuit layout, if it had a competitive engine.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Watching the stop-motion monsters climb over ruined walls to poke at Greece’s elite soldiers, it’s easy to forgive the movie for its less-than-stellar dubbing or borderline nonsensical love story.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
It took so long to do, it was borderline suspenseful.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Sigils, as I recall from some dark comic book series, are symbols of medieval magic from back in the day when so few people were literate that literacy itself was seen as borderline magical.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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They move freely, obscuring borderlines between categories that once loomed like separate land masses: jazz and chamber music; acoustic and electric ensembles; songs and improvised forms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
When Ms Clark had her smear in 2015, the result was negative when it should have highlighted borderlines changes.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2023
Global warming also has had its way with borderlines.
From Washington Post ● May 7, 2020
When one actually thinks of the behemoth task that was accomplished back then in the planning, designing and implementing of the New York subway, it almost borderlines on magical.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2018
Such a distribution was artificial but, once made, necessarily influenced the borderlines to the north and south.
From Area Handbook for Albania by Sarah Jane Elpern