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borderline

[bawr-der-lahyn] / ˈbɔr dərˌlaɪn /


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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

“On ‘Hot Ones’ you have those moments of people who are struggling, who are vulnerable, who are in a borderline state of panic.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

Not to mention borderline creepy that I had to escape my own car.

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King

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

“We don’t know each other and do not publish our own writers inside our continent because of the borderlines of colonial language such as French, English and Portuguese,” he says.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2024

Global warming also has had its way with borderlines.

From Washington Post May 7, 2020

Another set of photos shows a collection of painted borderlines and talismanic, glittering salt piles created by a sleepwalking housewife from Memphis.

From New York Times Dec. 16, 2011

It is no objection to this view if there are borderlines for the dream where its function, to preserve sleep from interruption, can no longer be maintained—as in the dreams of impending dread.

From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Sigmund Freud




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