as in borders
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 borderlands
These are the ports, pipelines, and oil refineries of Shandong province and its borderlands, where the hulking architecture of oil storage tanks and spindly profiles of smokestacks jut up from barren, coastal flatlands.
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Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 12 May 2026
The series project Burning Witches, written by Martina Babišová and Věra Starečková and produced by Dagmar Sedláčková, is set in the 17th century in the Bohemian-Polish borderlands.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 6 May 2026
Karla Cordero is a Chicana educator whose work lives in our borderlands and bridges community into artistry by curating open mics and an online poetry journal.
—Yesika Salgado, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026
Drought hangs like a dark, rainless cloud over the borderlands.
—Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 26 Mar. 2026
With Israel’s borderlands in ruins and hundreds of its citizens taken hostage, the country’s voters could no longer countenance their leader’s quietism, which now looked like a historic blunder.
—Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026
Today, there's a tale of two borderlands in the Himalayas.
—Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 17 Feb. 2026
Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 12 May 2026
The series project Burning Witches, written by Martina Babišová and Věra Starečková and produced by Dagmar Sedláčková, is set in the 17th century in the Bohemian-Polish borderlands.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 6 May 2026
Karla Cordero is a Chicana educator whose work lives in our borderlands and bridges community into artistry by curating open mics and an online poetry journal.
—Yesika Salgado, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026
Drought hangs like a dark, rainless cloud over the borderlands.
—Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 26 Mar. 2026
With Israel’s borderlands in ruins and hundreds of its citizens taken hostage, the country’s voters could no longer countenance their leader’s quietism, which now looked like a historic blunder.
—Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026
Today, there's a tale of two borderlands in the Himalayas.
—Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 17 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for borderlands
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The new report describes a sprawling transnational criminal system in which Brazilian syndicates, Colombian guerrilla dissidents, Ecuadorian gangs and local crime families collaborate and compete simultaneously while moving drugs, gold, weapons and money across porous borders.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
13 May 2026
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Beauty tourism is reshaping how people approach cosmetic care, with travelers crossing borders for everything from salmon-DNA injections in Seoul to hair transplants in Istanbul.—
Hanna Wickes,
Sacbee.com,
13 May 2026
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Having an opportunity to use the Air Force’s state-of-the-art testing facilities on a regular basis could potentially give start-ups and innovators a head start in pioneering new frontiers for drone warfare.—
Zita Ballinger Fletcher,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2026
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The Safavids had been in conflict with the Sunni forces on two frontiers, with Ottoman aggression to the west and Uzbek opposition to the east, ever since Ismāʿīl I, great-grandfather of ʿAbbās I, made Shiʿism Persia’s state religion in the 16th century.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
8 May 2026
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“Borderlands.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/borderlands. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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