borderland
Example Sentences
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The crime writer Don Winslow has repeatedly followed his characters into the wild borderland between law and crime.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026
The Ukrainian borderland has long been a place where cultures merge and interchange.
From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2024
Understanding its past as a perennial borderland is essential to knowing how it became the crucible of one of the most bitter disputes in modern history.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2023
“You can crack down on these symptoms and the manifestations … that you can see in the borderland areas,” he said, “but they’ll come back unless you really have a sustained effort.”
From Seattle Times • Oct. 22, 2023
In the borderland east of Ukrainia in Russia, there was a community of Cossacks who were members of the Greek Orthodox Church.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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