as in border
a region along the dividing line between two countries
I grew up on the borderland, so I speak both languages
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Recent Examples of borderland
The cosmic shoreline is probably less of a tidy fence and more of a wild borderland, said Joshua Krissansen-Totton (opens a new tab), a planetary scientist at the University of Washington.
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Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
The festival’s documentary award went to The Landscape and the Fury by Nicole Vögele, a doc about the Bosnia-Croatia borderlands.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2025
The band, which hails from the Ciudad Juarez/El Paso borderlands, plays a brand of music that takes scraps of genres like cumbia sonidera, funk and pop to create something wholly unique.
—Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2025
Capital of the northern Italian region of Piedmont, Turin was part of the Duchy of Savoy, which covered the borderlands between Italy, France, and Switzerland.
—Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2025
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Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
The festival’s documentary award went to The Landscape and the Fury by Nicole Vögele, a doc about the Bosnia-Croatia borderlands.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2025
The band, which hails from the Ciudad Juarez/El Paso borderlands, plays a brand of music that takes scraps of genres like cumbia sonidera, funk and pop to create something wholly unique.
—Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2025
Capital of the northern Italian region of Piedmont, Turin was part of the Duchy of Savoy, which covered the borderlands between Italy, France, and Switzerland.
—Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for borderland
border
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The longtime border journalist Todd Miller told me that border-security agencies such as C.B.P. and ICE have long relied on private contractors, including security guards who do menial work at ports of entry so that Border Patrol can conduct more rigorous missions.—
Jessica Pishko,
New Yorker,
6 June 2025
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The legislation would fulfill Trump’s key campaign promises, including an extension of his 2017 tax cuts, no taxes on tips and overtime and additional border security, paid for, in part, by cuts to Medicaid.—
Sara Dorn,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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