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They move freely, obscuring borderlines between categories that once loomed like separate land masses: jazz and chamber music; acoustic and electric ensembles; songs and improvised forms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026

When Ms Clark had her smear in 2015, the result was negative when it should have highlighted borderlines changes.

From BBC • Sep. 12, 2023

Global warming also has had its way with borderlines.

From Washington Post • May 7, 2020

Nevertheless, in the last few years, the borderlines of acceptable looking have become blurred.

From The Guardian • Feb. 27, 2019

It is no objection to this view if there are borderlines for the dream where its function, to preserve sleep from interruption, can no longer be maintained—as in the dreams of impending dread.

From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Freud, Sigmund