as in border
a region along the dividing line between two countries
I grew up on the borderland, so I speak both languages
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Recent Examples of borderland
Sea to Summit Comfort Plus SI for $125: The self-inflating Comfort Plus inhabits an interesting borderland between car camping pad and backpacking pads.
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Scott Gilbertson, Wired News, 11 May 2025
The extraordinary sightings give environmental advocates hope that jaguars could one day return to the US, fixing a broken food chain and recovering an important missing piece of Indigenous culture in the southern borderlands.
—Benji Jones, Vox, 21 May 2025
Thousands of state troopers from the Department of Public Safety were dispatched to arrest migrants in the borderlands.
—Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Armed resistance to the junta is broadly defined by two types of group: Those that emerged in response to the coup, and ethnic armed organizations that were already fighting for autonomy in Myanmar’s borderlands.
—Emily Fishbein, Hpan Ja Brang, The Dial, 17 Apr. 2025
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Scott Gilbertson, Wired News, 11 May 2025
The extraordinary sightings give environmental advocates hope that jaguars could one day return to the US, fixing a broken food chain and recovering an important missing piece of Indigenous culture in the southern borderlands.
—Benji Jones, Vox, 21 May 2025
Thousands of state troopers from the Department of Public Safety were dispatched to arrest migrants in the borderlands.
—Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Armed resistance to the junta is broadly defined by two types of group: Those that emerged in response to the coup, and ethnic armed organizations that were already fighting for autonomy in Myanmar’s borderlands.
—Emily Fishbein, Hpan Ja Brang, The Dial, 17 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for borderland
border
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When Biden was president, the U.S.-Mexico border was overrun by hundreds of thousands of migrants were crossed illegally.—
Nicole Russell,
USA Today,
24 July 2025
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After Sabraw ruled that such separations of families arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border were unconstitutional, the focus of the litigation turned to reunification.—
Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 July 2025
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“Borderland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/borderland. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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