With 52-Across, something in a gray area

Usage examples of borderline.

Two of the monkeys died and the third animal went into borderline shock, but somehow pulled through and survived.

The part about how some of us are starting to think that the label of borderline personality disorder or posttraumatic stress makes no difference.

Borderline malnutrition, osteoarthritis, chronic subdermal lesions, and a tumor that would have metastasized and killed him within a few years.

If by this superhuman concentration one succeeded in converting or resolving the two cosmoses with all their complexities into sheer ideas, he would then reach the causal world and stand on the borderline of fusion between mind and matter.

We are suggesting that, in addition to its own insuperable difficulties on both phenomenal and noumenal planes, this literal no-self doctrine is all too easily confused with a borderline worldview, and, indeed, this does especially appeal to individuals who are already having difficulties forming a cohesive self.

It tends to play into the borderline worldview, as I described above, and thus throws us into the retro-Romantic notion that at some point in development a horrible mistake occurred, and we have undo the mistake by digging backward, instead of evolving forward to higher integrations that overcome a partialness.

So much of what was going on here seemed to sit on a borderline between imagination and reality.

She had dark, curly hair with only a subtle tint of red, high cheekbones, and a thin face that spoke of borderline malnutrition.

Certainly Nola Payne had some sort of mental illness, or a borderline personality at the very least.

But borderlines in general and Colonel Bentworth in particular don’t get cured.

But borderlines in general and Colonel Bentworth in particular don't get cured.

Luckily, I lose the worst of the borderlines during the four days of training.

These roads were older than history, their paths twisting to preserve routes around long-dried marshes, their walls following the borderlines of land once defined by hedgerows.

One has to admit he can always be fooled along the faint borderlines of sensation.

He had skirted the borderlines of crime before-anyone flying Latin American charters inevitably did.