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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

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

“People are afraid of me. Fans who approach me are careful because my stage persona is borderline psychopath,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

“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

Carla, in fact, says it's a borderline schizoid response to traumatic cultural displacement.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

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 Sigmund Freud




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