borderline
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The first walk, to Turang, included a borderline ball four call.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
For a book that claims to praise Diana, Mr. Spencer makes her sound like a borderline psychopath.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Ross Kemp was so happy it came out as borderline anger, with a vein-popping "get in there!"
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
"Member states have increased their defence expenditure for a borderline country like Finland. That's a good thing," Stubb said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 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
“We don’t know each other and do not publish our own writers inside our continent because of the borderlines of colonial language such as French, English and Portuguese,” he says.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
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
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