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
Situated in the borderlands of high-performance, Mercedes-AMG E 53 is an exceptional everyday executive sedan with plenty of knockout punch.
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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
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for borderland
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Advertisement When the sirens first went off in towns and cities across the country very early Friday morning, many people stayed in bed, knowing that earlier campaigns had wiped out the rocket capabilities of Hamas in the Gaza Strip on Israel's western flank, and Hezbollah, on its northern border.—
Orly Halpern,
Time,
18 June 2025
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And Chinese interference within our borders doesn’t end there.—
Jovante Teague,
Sun Sentinel,
17 June 2025
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“Borderland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/borderland. Accessed 22 Jun. 2025.
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