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It's often done using standalone, automated machines known as "kiosks" and sometimes with border officers - for example, for children under 12.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
In another work called "What Remains", Sama Beydoun, 29 and living in Paris, showed pictures of her grandfather's now-destroyed home in Bint Jbeil, near the border with Israel, which she last saw in 2025.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
Mexico City time, with an epicenter about 30 miles southwest of the city of Huixtla, in Chiapas state, near the border with Guatemala.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted a picture of the collapse of a maritime-communications tower in Chabahar, which sits more than 350 miles east of the strait near the Pakistan border.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
I turned around and saw them coming too, two border patrol trucks rolling up the hill with their headlights full force on us.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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The situation highlights a difficult reality for policymakers: Some problems can cross borders regardless of tariffs, political boundaries or enforcement measures.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
“Science is a global enterprise. Especially in biomedical and public health fields, diseases don’t care about borders or government policies,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Capital, liquidity and products are all bound by national borders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
In Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province, a once-thriving business of trading car parts from far-flung places has screeched to a halt due to conflicts at the country's borders.
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026
He regards me with something that borders on disgust.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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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
The cars are connected to charging points by the garages for the flats, which are in traditional red buildings bordered by birch trees and a large golf course.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
The pre-fight feeling was that this occasion bordered on the absurd as a sanctioned world title contest, but Verhoeven went a long way to proving the boxing fraternity wrong.
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
District 5 is roughly bordered by the 405 Freeway on the west, Venice Boulevard on the south, Mulholland Drive on the north and stretching as far east as Western Avenue.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
Most of the shops that bordered the square were shuttered, the autumn Greenmarket packed up hours ago, leaving no more than a towering pile of compost and scattered remnants of produce.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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With her bright-eyed inquisitiveness bordering on tactlessness, and Harry Potter T-shirt, Cheryl-Ann comes close to being a caricature of a crass tourist, and is treated as such with cool disdain by Orla.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
The mass raid also killed one person on a ferry and hit an oil terminal in Russia's southern Krasnodar region bordering Crimea, the authorities there said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 21, 2026
Still, some see these plans as bordering on science fiction.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026
Last week, we were invited to join Mahmood on police raids of mini-marts on Soho Road in the Handsworth area of Birmingham - a high street bordering her own constituency.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
Whether in the sugarcane fields or by the leafy stream bordering my family’s land, being outside had always calmed me.
From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed
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