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What does bordering on mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of border on
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Nothing wrong with that especially when the resulting outcome is something bordering on a religious experience of aural ecstatic proportions.
Your editorial last week showed a naivety bordering on crass stupidity when you argued that smoking in pubs should be a matter of choice.
Nations, bordering on the already infected countries, began to enter upon serious plans for the better keeping out of the enemy.
Such incendiary language, bordering on incitement to mutiny, has become almost routine in Republican quarters.
I think that was the beginning to Margaret's dislike bordering on hatred of Naomi.
There are dance numbers, ambient soundscapes and even a downtempo joint bordering on hip hop.

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