borderline
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Chicago Fed boss Austan Goolsbee told PBS Newshour the reading was "another distressing report, borderline disturbing".
From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2026
To say the tree cutting was “cleaning up,” she said, “is borderline farcical.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
"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
Two of the monkeys died and the third animal went into borderline shock, but somehow pulled through and survived.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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
Nevertheless, in the last few years, the borderlines of acceptable looking have become blurred.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 27, 2019
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
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