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The two countries have long disagreed on stretches of their 500-mile border that had been demarcated under French colonial rule, especially around the Preah Vihear and Ta Muen Thom temples, and have clashed several times over the years, including between 2008 and 2011.
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Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 9 Dec. 2025
Despite a recent calming in runaway home values in metro Denver, the $650,000 median price of a detached home in October still demarcated a housing market that was out of reach for many.
—John Aguilar, Denver Post, 28 Nov. 2025
Called the Willow Palisade, this was a seven-hundred-kilometer-long double wall, planted in northeast China in the middle of the seventeenth century by the Qing dynasty to demarcate the southern extent of their homeland.
—Literary Hub, 14 Nov. 2025
However, Thailand does not recognize the ICJ’s jurisdiction and claims that some areas along the border were never fully demarcated, including the sites of several ancient temples.
—Helen Regan, CNN Money, 11 Nov. 2025
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Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 9 Dec. 2025
Despite a recent calming in runaway home values in metro Denver, the $650,000 median price of a detached home in October still demarcated a housing market that was out of reach for many.
—John Aguilar, Denver Post, 28 Nov. 2025
Called the Willow Palisade, this was a seven-hundred-kilometer-long double wall, planted in northeast China in the middle of the seventeenth century by the Qing dynasty to demarcate the southern extent of their homeland.
—Literary Hub, 14 Nov. 2025
However, Thailand does not recognize the ICJ’s jurisdiction and claims that some areas along the border were never fully demarcated, including the sites of several ancient temples.
—Helen Regan, CNN Money, 11 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for demarcate
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Corporate Traveler, the flagship SME division of Flight Centre Travel Group, announced the release of its Business Travel 2025 Year-in-Review, an annual report delivering a comprehensive retrospective of the key trends, behaviors and destinations that defined the business travel over the past year.—
Roger Sands,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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But while his own work is marked by coincidences and unexpected bookends, some provided by the universe and some engineered by the filmmaker, at its core, it’s defined by an unswerving faith in the boundless eccentricities and fascinating fixations of other people.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
23 Jan. 2026
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