border on
Example Sentences
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A whole family from Tabriz crossed the border on Monday afternoon as a light snow fell.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026
Product designers are hatching new ways to rouse them that border on diabolical.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
Afghanistan's Taliban government said it had launched an offensive on Pakistani military bases near the border on Thursday night.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026
Colombia proposed a bilateral meeting at the border on January 25, according to an official letter published by local media.
From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026
Puerta Penasco is about a hundred miles south of the Arizona border on a strip of land that connects the Baja Peninsula to the rest of Mexico.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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