straddle

Wood, 46, has lately been straddling a narrowing gap between political and personal comedy.

Beowulf, straddled upon the wolf’s back as if it were, in fact, a pony.

The largest of the islands, Honshu, is in an especially precarious position, straddling the boundary between the Eurasian and North American Plates.

Investors of late seem to be straddling fears of missing out on the AI trade and worries over a dot-com-esque bubble.

Saman entered the country illegally, having fled Kurdistan - a region that straddles the borders of Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria but which is not internationally recognised as a country - because his life was at risk.