borderline

To say the tree cutting was “cleaning up,” she said, “is borderline farcical.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

The first walk, to Turang, included a borderline ball four call.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

"In the face of cutbacks in preventative services and huge waiting lists, what's happening is those grey cases, those borderline cases, more of those children are coming to care," Broadhurst explains.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 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

The idea is to make myself look like someone who’s spent the night in a regular home with kitchen and washer and dryer, not like someone who’s borderline homeless.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

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

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

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