as in borders
a region along the dividing line between two countries
I grew up on the borderland, so I speak both languages
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Recent Examples of borderlands
And there are whole swaths of the country where voting will not take place, as the junta continues to battle a patchwork of ethnic rebels and pro-democracy fighters in the hilly borderlands and arid central plains.
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Ross Adkin, CNN Money, 27 Dec. 2025
Tucson is the borderlands, and the people here are long accustomed to roaming travelers stopping through.
—Von Diaz, Bon Appetit Magazine, 11 Dec. 2025
The chase-down of immigrants, traditionally a tactic employed by the Border Patrol in remote borderlands areas, is now a blunt national strategy deployed by the federal government in America’s most populous cities.
—Time, 4 Dec. 2025
When Hernán helps Julia and her young daughter, Maribel, navigate treacherous borderlands, their desperate journey triggers the wrath of a ruthless trafficking syndicate.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2025
This is what the borderlands taste like, that casual blending of cultures and flavors.
—Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Her books occupy the borderlands of realism and fable, where the plausible brushes up against the impossible, and the laws of narrative logic are bent just enough to let in the surreal.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for borderlands
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There are exact borders of a painting, but there’s a lot of freedom in these exact borders.—
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Natural gas is increasingly flowing across borders in the Middle East — even between countries that until recently had frosty relations.—
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Sleep is also emerging as one of the most significant — and most underserved — frontiers.—
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Moving forward, Dalén says the future study of RNA in ancient animals will open up exciting new frontiers for understanding how these animals lived.—
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“Borderlands.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/borderlands. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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