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in the borderland between sleeping and waking
He describes adolescence as the tumultuous borderlands between childhood and adulthood.
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He and the other Eritreans in his group emerged from the borderlands thicket to find a van waiting on the Ugandan side that carried them the remaining 10 hours to Kampala.
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Error loading player: No playable sources found The foothills of the Spin Ghar mountain range, two dozen miles south of Jalalabad in the borderland between Afghanistan and Pakistan, were once home to hundreds of olive plantations.
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Error loading player: No playable sources found The foothills of the Spin Ghar mountain range, two dozen miles south of Jalalabad in the borderland between Afghanistan and Pakistan, were once home to hundreds of olive plantations.
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Solar panels in remote U.S. borderland also don't make sense.
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Its four-year-old program is rooted in teachings from the Aztec and the Maya, as well as peoples from the U.S.-Mexico borderlands—before there actually was a border.
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In order to build parts of the wall, the government will have to continue eminent-domain battles with private land owners, particularly in the Texas borderlands.
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So how did Costa Mesa transform from a between-towns borderland into the vibrant heart of our large and cosmopolitan county?
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Russia violated its obligations under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and absorbed borderlands of former Soviet republics.
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First Known Use of borderland
1811
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Definition of borderland for English Language Learners
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: the land on either side of a border between countries
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: an unclear state or condition that is between two things and is like each of them in some ways
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