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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As the fund progresses, the Mellon aims to bring others national funders to supporting binational artistic production along the borderlands to maximize the support that organizations in the region receive.
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Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 18 Oct. 2024
In each of the last two summers, Laura Mae Williams, who recovers bodies for the New Mexico Medical Investigator’s Office, has had to visit the U.S.-Mexico borderlands multiple times a week.
—David Noriega, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2024
Horwitz is a filmmaker from the Southwest borderlands, whose work navigates the impact of militarization and xenophobia on the region’s inhabitants.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2024
The film is set in the Rio Grande Valley (puro 956, cuh!), a borderland slice of South Texas where the Mexican and the American meet, mingle and fuse.
—Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2024
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Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 18 Oct. 2024
In each of the last two summers, Laura Mae Williams, who recovers bodies for the New Mexico Medical Investigator’s Office, has had to visit the U.S.-Mexico borderlands multiple times a week.
—David Noriega, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2024
Horwitz is a filmmaker from the Southwest borderlands, whose work navigates the impact of militarization and xenophobia on the region’s inhabitants.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2024
The film is set in the Rio Grande Valley (puro 956, cuh!), a borderland slice of South Texas where the Mexican and the American meet, mingle and fuse.
—Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2024
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“Borderland.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/borderland. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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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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