borderline

“And my daughter fought for a long time with extreme mental health, borderline personality disorder, other things, and did the best she could, until she couldn’t.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

Within a legal profession that venerates judges and worships the Supreme Court, this is borderline heresy.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026

For Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Andrew Giuliani, the executive director of the White House’s World Cup task force and son of Rudy Giuliani, the borderline call was an injustice that demanded executive intervention.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

In the wake of the club's colossal, and borderline negligent, error in appointing Wilfried Nancy, ignoring a proven winner who's under your nose is the risk-averse play, the path of least resistance.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

And because he knew he was weak, he grew more and more stern and painstaking and much less likely to accept an excuse or a borderline disability.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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

Global warming also has had its way with borderlines.

From Washington Post ● May 7, 2020

Up to 15 million people left their homes to begin a new life in India or Pakistan, and by September 1947 the formal exchange of population across the Punjab borderlines had become government policy.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 5, 2017

Fitzgerald's Jazz Age was a time when the borderlines between the fortunes of the elite and the spoils of organised crime were blurred and shifting.

From BBC ● May 31, 2013

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 Freud, Sigmund