borderland
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How to use borderland in a sentence
Instead, scientists want to study the borderlands between humans and wildlife, where encroaching settlements and development are increasing the odds of a virus spilling over.
Equipped with paramilitary gear and lugging their weapons through the rough borderlands, militiamen sought to track down immigrants crossing the border, sometimes detaining them.
The U.S.-Mexico Border Has Long Been a Magnet for Far-Right Vigilantes | Patrick Strickland | February 17, 2022 | TimeNamwali Serpell calls William Hope Hodgson’s “The House on the borderland,” first published over a century ago, “one of the most startling accounts of infinity that I’ve ever read.”
‘B-Side Books’ adds to your must-read stack with the best books you’ve never heard of | Abby McGanney Nolan | June 10, 2021 | Washington PostIn many respects, these remote and geopolitically volatile borderlands might seem like an unlikely place to seek solutions for the crisis of travel in the covid era.
In East Africa, mountain gorillas and a new paradigm for wildlife travel | Henry Wismayer | April 23, 2021 | Washington PostFor people living in borderlands, those emotions are often negative.
How border walls trick the human brain and psyche | Jessica Wapner | October 2, 2020 | Popular-Science
This borderland—the interface of human activity and wild habitat—is the most dangerous region of all for bears.
But as the excellent blog borderland Beat says, “Remember this is Mexico and anything can happen.”
Perhaps he also hopes he can keep Ukraine as a borderland instead of having it join NATO.
A Ukrainian-American Watches Putin from Kiev and Wonders What’s Next for Ukraine | Roman Skaskiw | March 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhen the latest Russian aggression ends, Ukraine will still be a borderland caught between East and West.
Caught Between Empires, Ukraine Can’t Rely on the West for its Independence | Roman Skaskiw | March 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTUkraine needs to embrace its historic role, not to mention its strategic reality, as a borderland.
Caught Between Empires, Ukraine Can’t Rely on the West for its Independence | Roman Skaskiw | March 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe feeble loyalty of the native regiments at Lucknow sufficed to keep all the borderland of Nepaul quiet for nearly two months.
The Red Year | Louis TracyThis high lonely butte stands on the borderland between the country of the Pawnees and the country of the Dakotas.
Prairie Smoke (Second Edition, Revised) | Melvin Randolph GilmoreHe felt that he had reached the land—or at least the borderland—of Bohemia, that Ultima Thule of every young literary dream.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete | Albert Bigelow PaineIt rather occupies a kind of borderland between them, coming under the head of philanthropy.
Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of Matthew | John Monro GibsonBut even in this borderland He cannot be hid; and when the sick and needy throng around Him, He cannot turn away from them.
Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of Matthew | John Monro Gibson
British Dictionary definitions for borderland
/ (ˈbɔːdəˌlænd) /
land located on or near a frontier or boundary
an indeterminate region: the borderland between intellect and intelligence
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