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[bawr-der] / ˈbɔr dər /




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Nowhere is the impact more obvious than at the Flying J, just over the border from Louisiana at the crossroads of a U.S. consumer economy that runs on diesel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

A big wild card for the project remains al-Shabaab, the al Qaeda affiliate that has expanded its war against the Somali government into border areas of Kenya.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

The South's Unification Minister, Chung Dong-young, also proposed talks to address issues along the border to Pyongyang on Friday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

Scientists believe the disease probably spread to Scotland after infected midges were blown across the border from England but the risk of transmission is now falling as the midge season draws to a close.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

But I can tell by Father’s yearning voice he wants Caesar to come—all the way to the border, across the Red River.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Culver City secured an agreement with the operator of the Inglewood Oil Field to shut down the part that lies within its borders by 2029.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

“These public-service announcements are about reminding Americans to love their country and understand what makes it worth defending, at home, at our borders, and abroad,” the White House said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Only bands local to the Pikes Peak region, including those close to but outside the borders of Colorado Springs, are invited to play.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

They are located in central Wales, northern Scotland, the borders area of southern Scotland and northern England.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

The “eternal” problem happened along the stretch of creek between the Logan County borders.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

To make the cabinets her own, she took inspiration from Danish flower paintings and began hand-painting pink flowers against a white background on the fronts, allowing them to be bordered by the original brown.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Our campsite bordered the Fefine, a large river that flows even in the dry season.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

The action bordered on farce - even Joe Root attempted a reverse-scoop - yet there was little Duckett could do about a spitter from Sears he fended to first slip.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

Many German commanders, Mr. Hargreaves reveals, felt Rommel favored “speed first, not safety,” and Rommel’s impulsiveness “frequently bordered on recklessness.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

He bought them some furniture and gave them some money until José Arcadio recovered his sense of reality and began to work the no-man’s-land that bordered the courtyard of the house.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

MCALLEN, Texas — Vanessa Ovalle has a “frontline view” of Texas schools as a single mom and a speech pathologist at a local school in McAllen, a city in the Rio Grande Valley bordering Mexico.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

Communities across all states bordering Wyoming face darkness, breathing difficulties and roofs collapsing under accumulated ash.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Boundaries are extremely tricky to maintain with people who are insistent and/or bordering on pushy.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

His men loved him for it, their devotion bordering on religious.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

If something captured my undisciplined imagination, I pursued it with a zeal bordering on obsession, and from the age of seventeen until my late twenties that something was mountain climbing.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer




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