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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Smoke from both is drifting south, causing hazy skies across the borderland.
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Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
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The extraordinary sightings give environmental advocates hope that jaguars could one day return to the US, fixing a broken food chain and recovering an important missing piece of Indigenous culture in the southern borderlands.
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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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Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
Sea to Summit Comfort Plus SI for $125: The self-inflating Comfort Plus inhabits an interesting borderland between car camping pad and backpacking pads.
—Scott Gilbertson, Wired News, 11 May 2025
The extraordinary sightings give environmental advocates hope that jaguars could one day return to the US, fixing a broken food chain and recovering an important missing piece of Indigenous culture in the southern borderlands.
—Benji Jones, Vox, 21 May 2025
Thousands of state troopers from the Department of Public Safety were dispatched to arrest migrants in the borderlands.
—Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
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“Borderland.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/borderland. Accessed 8 Jul. 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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