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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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
The Texas borderland band delves further into the música Mexicana genre this time, experimenting with tribal, corridos tumbados, sad sirreño and a bit of southern honky-tonk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2024
Leaving his native country meant embarking on a life of exile, not to mention a risky escape on foot across the mountainous borderland.
From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2024
Recently, the site and its mysteries have been drawing record numbers of visitors to this place near the provincial capital of Sanliurfa in the borderland with Syria — 850,000 in 2022.
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2023
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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