as in borders
the line or relatively narrow space that marks the outer limit of something
the actual borderline separating the two properties is now being disputed
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Noun
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Roughly a 10th of Kazakhstan’s territory lies west of the Ural River, one of Europe’s natural borders.—
Nina Subkhanberdina, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
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Their immediate affinity, set at the very height of the Cold War, represents a common European culture based on reading and the arts that defied borders and ideologies.—
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Rainwater tends to accumulate at the road edges.—
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Rainwater tends to gather along the road edges.—
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At times, the boundaries between art and artist blurred, with Herzog and his creative partner Klaus Kinski taking their dangerous onscreen missions into violent offscreen clashes with each other, as captured in the 1999 documentary, My Best Friend.—
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The seven-time Grammy winner has long been embraced by fans for pushing boundaries and using her voice to advocate for human rights — something the star says has been a guiding light for her.—
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These events underscore ongoing challenges in securing these bases, particularly when personnel bring personal weapons, mental health issues arise, or external assailants breach security perimeters.—
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Each match is expected to sell out the 70,000-capacity stadium, and there will be multiple security perimeters, opposed to the free-flowing situation in the parking lot Saturday.—
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The lineup of dishes and sauces and combos verges on overwhelming; they’re presented in a mix of typefaces and colors, and punctuated by herky-jerky photo animations—a waving hand holding a soft-serve twist, spidery fingers with brass nail extensions used in the traditional Thai dance Fawn Leb.—
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Enyedi has often made meditative cinema, but here her restraint in some sequences verges on suffocating.—
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“Borderlines.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/borderlines. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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