VERB
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come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character
His playing approaches that of Horowitz
This borders on discrimination!
How To Use border on In A Sentence
- This very careful attitude to money can sometimes border on meanness.
- Roses or blush wines that border on the sweet side also pair well with informal food such as barbecue.
- The rally had been organized to mourn the guerrillas killed on the border on May 5.
- Remaking movies is always a risky endeavor, and remaking a classic can border on the foolhardy.
- And the obnoxious rantings of certain techno-utopians border on the asinine when they don't cross it. Journalism: product v process (Blog for Democracy)
- I know one lady who dibbles pieces of last year's growth in a border on the east side of her house where they root with no special care.
- His dialogues border on the vulgar and the lewd and thanks to his ilk, we know why people look down upon the rustic.
- These attempts at cross-cultural and transhistorical contextualization occasionally lack nuance and border on the factually inaccurate. The Times Literary Supplement
- In many cases, these suspicions may be so unreasonable as to border on paranoia.
- His responses to criticisms of problems falling under his control border on the laughable.
