I. adjective
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case
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A borderline case , and then deindustrialization had pushed him over the edge.
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a borderline student
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Caitlin's grades are borderline . She'll have to work harder.
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In borderline cases we look at a student's class work to decide the final exam result.
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It was a borderline decision whether to send him to prison or not.
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Johnson's arguments range from ridiculous to borderline slander.
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Lower rates can help some borderline borrowers qualify for loans.
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A borderline case, and then deindustrialization had pushed him over the edge.
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Some of this borderline recklessness goes with the territory.
II. noun
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the borderline between affection and love
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As far as he was concerned, there was no longer a borderline .
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For more demanding purposes still more is required, and it is often hard to decide just where to fix the borderline .
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Gilsland, near Lanercost Abbey, was only fifteen miles from the borderline at Kirkandrews.
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One could answer this by suggesting that here we are on the borderline between social and physiological laws.
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The communal borderline between Chouilly and Cramant slices through the middle of these slopes, the higher vines belonging to Chouilly.