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What does bordering on mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of border on
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Nations, bordering on the already infected countries, began to enter upon serious plans for the better keeping out of the enemy.
Your editorial last week showed a naivety bordering on crass stupidity when you argued that smoking in pubs should be a matter of choice.
He also loved bawdy songs and ancient poetry bordering on the pornographic.
Nothing wrong with that especially when the resulting outcome is something bordering on a religious experience of aural ecstatic proportions.
Was the students' act bordering on something like savagery when they took advantage of the workers' penurious state?
The Party's high command is now bordering on obsession in its concern over how to avoid a low voter turnout.

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