bordered

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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

McCardel found that the job required an ability to conceptualize problems in a way that bordered on the philosophical.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026

It is bordered by vast swamp forests and largely undisturbed lowland rainforest growing atop deep peat deposits.

From Science Daily • Feb. 24, 2026

It certainly gave an advantage to ball over bat that bordered on unfair.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2025

He stopped the car, and I could see that the edge of the road bordered a vertical slope that crumbled into vacancy, a fall of perhaps two thousand feet.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier