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
Potentially the biggest beneficiary of Assad’s departure is Turkey, a longtime opposition backer that hosts some 3.2 million Syrian refugees and which controls swaths of its southern neighbor’s borderlands.
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Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2024
In the early 2000’s, the modern militia movement—which formed in the 1980s out of animus toward the federal government—started training its sights on the nearly 2,000-mile stretch of borderland that the US shares with Mexico.
—Tess Owen, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024
As the fund progresses, the Mellon aims to bring others national funders to supporting binational artistic production along the borderlands to maximize the support that organizations in the region receive.
—Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 18 Oct. 2024
In each of the last two summers, Laura Mae Williams, who recovers bodies for the New Mexico Medical Investigator’s Office, has had to visit the U.S.-Mexico borderlands multiple times a week.
—David Noriega, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2024
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Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2024
In the early 2000’s, the modern militia movement—which formed in the 1980s out of animus toward the federal government—started training its sights on the nearly 2,000-mile stretch of borderland that the US shares with Mexico.
—Tess Owen, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024
As the fund progresses, the Mellon aims to bring others national funders to supporting binational artistic production along the borderlands to maximize the support that organizations in the region receive.
—Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 18 Oct. 2024
In each of the last two summers, Laura Mae Williams, who recovers bodies for the New Mexico Medical Investigator’s Office, has had to visit the U.S.-Mexico borderlands multiple times a week.
—David Noriega, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2024
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“Borderland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/borderland. Accessed 5 Feb. 2025.
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