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
When Hernán helps Julia and her young daughter, Maribel, navigate treacherous borderlands, their desperate journey triggers the wrath of a ruthless trafficking syndicate.
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Matt Grobar, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2025
This is what the borderlands taste like, that casual blending of cultures and flavors.
—Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 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
Matt Grobar, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2025
This is what the borderlands taste like, that casual blending of cultures and flavors.
—Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 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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Roughly a 10th of Kazakhstan’s territory lies west of the Ural River, one of Europe’s natural borders.—
Nina Subkhanberdina,
CNN Money,
30 Sep. 2025
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Their immediate affinity, set at the very height of the Cold War, represents a common European culture based on reading and the arts that defied borders and ideologies.—
AudioFile Magazine
September 30,
Literary Hub,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In astronomy, though, the frontiers felt wide open.—
Adam Frank,
Big Think,
25 Sep. 2025
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New frontiers in medical use The ability to control the metamaterial remotely makes new medical applications possible.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Borderlands.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/borderlands. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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