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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

“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

Garcia’s Ford seems not just jealous but borderline apoplectic.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

Sigils, as I recall from some dark comic book series, are symbols of medieval magic from back in the day when so few people were literate that literacy itself was seen as borderline magical.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

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“We don’t know each other and do not publish our own writers inside our continent because of the borderlines of colonial language such as French, English and Portuguese,” he says.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

The borderlines, announced on 17 August – two days after independence – cut right through these two provinces and caused unforeseen turmoil.

From The Guardian Aug. 5, 2017

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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