borderland
noun
bor·der·land
ˈbȯr-dər-ˌland 
1
a
: territory at or near a border
b
: fringe sense 3a
lives on the borderland of society
2
: a vague intermediate state or region
the borderland between fantasy and reality
Examples of borderland in a Sentence
in the borderland between sleeping and waking
He describes adolescence as the tumultuous borderlands between childhood and adulthood.
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Thousands of state troopers from the Department of Public Safety were dispatched to arrest migrants in the borderlands.
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Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
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Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Armed resistance to the junta is broadly defined by two types of group: Those that emerged in response to the coup, and ethnic armed organizations that were already fighting for autonomy in Myanmar’s borderlands.
—Emily Fishbein, Hpan Ja Brang, The Dial, 17 Apr. 2025
Situated in the borderlands of high-performance, Mercedes-AMG E 53 is an exceptional everyday executive sedan with plenty of knockout punch.
—Mark Ewing, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
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.
—Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
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“Borderland.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/borderland. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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borderland
noun
bor·der·land
ˈbȯrd-ər-ˌland
1
: territory at or near a border : frontier
2
: an unclear condition or region separating two clearly different ones
the borderland between sleeping and waking
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