bordered

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District 5 is roughly bordered by the 405 Freeway on the west, Venice Boulevard on the south, Mulholland Drive on the north and stretching as far east as Western Avenue.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

The park leads on to the Grand Union Canal Walk and is bordered by the River Brent, a tributary of the River Thames.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026

These remains are locked within rock layers that began as soft mud on the seafloor, formed in an ancient ocean that stretched across mid to high paleolatitudes and bordered the massive Panthalassa Super-ocean.

From Science Daily • Dec. 30, 2025

A number of them are bordered by mountains, cities or paddy fields, making it harder to break out of the beach perimeter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025

Thanks to the thick bushes and the swamps and muddy banks that bordered the creeks, only small bodies could wiggle into the dry nooks and crannies of the island.

From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins