bordered (on)

past tense of border (on)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bordered (on)
Verb
  • Goad joined The Tennessean in 2016 as the business and entertainment editor and has been critical to the company’s digital growth, leading a dramatic expansion of music and entertainment coverage while elevating its enterprise business reporting.
    Nashville Tennessean, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Oct. 2025
  • After injuring his left foot during fall camp, Wilson joined Vernell Brown III in the starting lineup, becoming the fourth pair of UF freshman pass catchers to start in a season.
    Noah White, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • However, there seemed to be more problems on the back end, especially with Blades and Sterlin out.
    Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Once most of the ticker tape had been cleared from the pitch, and the game finally started, all this seemed to have rattled the Netherlands, who played an unusually physical brand of football, perhaps a precursor to their infamous 2010 final display against Spain.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The new department will be located in what was previously Children's Wisconsin's emergency department, where the two hospitals are adjoined.
    Sarah Volpenhein, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Flay lives in the Morris Adjmic–designed Sterling Mason, a condominium composed of a 1905 red brick warehouse adjoined with a newer, metallic mirror image.
    Keith Flanagan, Architectural Digest, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Its shape naturally resembled a giant ramp.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Never has a rap show resembled a mid-2000s video game set in the Florida Keys swamp.
    Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In a speech on the subject on the Senate floor in August, the senator was flanked by a placard with images of hemp products in packages mimicking snacks such as Doritos and Oreos.
    Lucas Aulbach, Louisville Courier Journal, 1 Oct. 2025
  • On the other juries, director Kibwe Tavares, whose The Kitchen closed the festival in 2023, will preside over the First Feature Competition (Sutherland Award), flanked by Zurich Film Festival head programmer Anja Fröhner and director Nadia Latif (The Man in my Basement).
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The top loft of the 1903 cast-iron Soho building hadn’t been touched in three decades.
    Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Neve and Nala’s first encounter has touched so many hearts online, leading to more than 1,600 comments on the TikTok post so far.
    Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The percentage indicates how much of the fire perimeter has been surrounded by a control line.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • By weaving Hartley's story into the narrative, Murphy explored the fear and paranoia that surrounded rural Wisconsin during the time of Gein’s actual crimes.
    Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
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“Bordered (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bordered%20%28on%29. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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