borderland
noun
bor·der·land
ˈbȯr-dər-ˌland 
1
a
: territory at or near a border
b
: fringe sense 3a
lives on the borderland of society
2
: a vague intermediate state or region
the borderland between fantasy and reality
Examples of borderland in a Sentence
in the borderland between sleeping and waking
He describes adolescence as the tumultuous borderlands between childhood and adulthood.
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In Myanmar’s borderlands, criminal networks that unite Chinese kingpins with ethnic warlords are kidnapping people from all over the globe to toil in factories that scam people online.
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Hannah Beech, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
Even the first stage of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine - on the pretext of protecting Russian speakers being maltreated - parallels Hitler’s sending shock troops into Czechoslovakia to purportedly safeguard German speakers along the Czech borderlands.
—Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Trump performed well in Tuesday’s election among several groups of Hispanic voters who have traditionally voted for Democrats, including the small town, working-class Tejanos, Chicanos and Mexican residents of Texas’ borderlands and with Latino men more broadly.
—Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American-Statesman, 7 Nov. 2024
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.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2024
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Hannah Beech, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
Even the first stage of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine - on the pretext of protecting Russian speakers being maltreated - parallels Hitler’s sending shock troops into Czechoslovakia to purportedly safeguard German speakers along the Czech borderlands.
—Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
Trump performed well in Tuesday’s election among several groups of Hispanic voters who have traditionally voted for Democrats, including the small town, working-class Tejanos, Chicanos and Mexican residents of Texas’ borderlands and with Latino men more broadly.
—Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American-Statesman, 7 Nov. 2024
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.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2024
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“Borderland.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/borderland. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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borderland
noun
bor·der·land
ˈbȯrd-ər-ˌland
1
: territory at or near a border : frontier
2
: an unclear condition or region separating two clearly different ones
the borderland between sleeping and waking
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