noun
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land located on or near a frontier or boundary
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an indeterminate region
the borderland between intellect and intelligence
Etymology
Origin of borderland
Example Sentences
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At the ceremony, hitmaker and songwriter Edgar Barrera, who grew up in the same borderland area, said that Intocable “showed the world what música mexicana could be.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
The crime writer Don Winslow has repeatedly followed his characters into the wild borderland between law and crime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
Then the slippery borderland between fact and fiction, and the perils of ignoring just how slippery it is.
From Salon ● May 7, 2025
The Ukrainian borderland has long been a place where cultures merge and interchange.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2024
In the borderland east of Ukrainia in Russia, there was a community of Cossacks who were members of the Greek Orthodox Church.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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