as in borders
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 borderlands
Follow jaguars through the borderlands in new documentary Thanks for reading and for subscribing to AZ Climate, the Arizona Republic's weekly environment newsletter.
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Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 19 Jan. 2026
And there are whole swaths of the country where voting will not take place, as the junta continues to battle a patchwork of ethnic rebels and pro-democracy fighters in the hilly borderlands and arid central plains.
—Ross Adkin, CNN Money, 27 Dec. 2025
Tucson is the borderlands, and the people here are long accustomed to roaming travelers stopping through.
—Von Diaz, Bon Appetit Magazine, 11 Dec. 2025
The chase-down of immigrants, traditionally a tactic employed by the Border Patrol in remote borderlands areas, is now a blunt national strategy deployed by the federal government in America’s most populous cities.
—Time, 4 Dec. 2025
When Hernán helps Julia and her young daughter, Maribel, navigate treacherous borderlands, their desperate journey triggers the wrath of a ruthless trafficking syndicate.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2025
Her books occupy the borderlands of realism and fable, where the plausible brushes up against the impossible, and the laws of narrative logic are bent just enough to let in the surreal.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 19 Jan. 2026
And there are whole swaths of the country where voting will not take place, as the junta continues to battle a patchwork of ethnic rebels and pro-democracy fighters in the hilly borderlands and arid central plains.
—Ross Adkin, CNN Money, 27 Dec. 2025
Tucson is the borderlands, and the people here are long accustomed to roaming travelers stopping through.
—Von Diaz, Bon Appetit Magazine, 11 Dec. 2025
The chase-down of immigrants, traditionally a tactic employed by the Border Patrol in remote borderlands areas, is now a blunt national strategy deployed by the federal government in America’s most populous cities.
—Time, 4 Dec. 2025
When Hernán helps Julia and her young daughter, Maribel, navigate treacherous borderlands, their desperate journey triggers the wrath of a ruthless trafficking syndicate.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2025
Her books occupy the borderlands of realism and fable, where the plausible brushes up against the impossible, and the laws of narrative logic are bent just enough to let in the surreal.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for borderlands
Noun
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This lingering becomes the sound of a book in a new room, opening, its music carried in a wind that crosses borders.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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Going into the 1990s, psychiatrists were optimistic that these borders would also show up in brain scans and genetics research.—
Allison Parshall,
Scientific American,
28 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The societies that can advance to the frontiers of the productive power that capitalism unleashes while maintaining their coherence and élan advance to the front of the race for international status and power.—
Walter Russell Mead,
The Atlantic,
24 Jan. 2026
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Importance of the expedition This mission targets three key frontiers.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Jan. 2026
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“Borderlands.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/borderlands. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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