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Synonyms for borderline

Grammar : Adj
Spell : bawr-der-lahyn
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbɔr dərˌlaɪn

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Définition of borderline

Origin :
  • 1869, "strip of land along a frontier," from border (n.) + line (n.). As an adjective meaning "verging on" it is attested from 1907, originally in medical jargon.
  • adj inexact
Example sentences :
  • It was so poignant a sensation that it crossed the borderline into pain.
  • Extract from : « The Ideal » by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum
  • Between prescience and imagination the borderline is ill defined.
  • Extract from : « The Orchard of Tears » by Sax Rohmer
  • Why had she ventured back on to the borderline of this life that had once been hers?
  • Extract from : « To Love » by Margaret Peterson
  • The old man was upon that borderline between the living and the dead.
  • Extract from : « The Lone Ranger Rides » by Fran Striker
  • Going from Stirling to Crieff we crossed the borderline of the Highlands.
  • Extract from : « The Heather-Moon » by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
  • Happiness is taking part in a struggle where there is no borderline between one's own personal world and the world in general.
  • Extract from : « Warren Commission (1 of 26): Hearings Vol. I (of 15) » by The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
  • Wait till you get some big case in court with a borderline paranoid as a star performer.
  • Extract from : « The Trial of Callista Blake » by Edgar Pangborn
  • There is no telling when he may be called upon to pass judgment on a borderline case.
  • Extract from : « Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: » by Louis Marshall Warfield
  • The colony of Bartle is the westernmost, located about fifty miles from the borderline between that province and Oriente.
  • Extract from : « The History of Cuba, vol. 5 » by Willis Fletcher Johnson
  • Genetics tells us that the borderline between genders is less clear-cut than we assumed.
  • Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin

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