border on

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border on - come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character; "This borders on discrimination!"; "His playing approaches that of Horowitz"

approach

approximate, come close - be close or similar; "Her results approximate my own"

converge - approach a limit as the number of terms increases without limit

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The hollyhocks and lilies (now flourishing) are still under the south windows in a narrow border on the top of a grass slope, at the foot of which I have sown two long borders of sweetpeas facing the rose beds, so that my roses may have something almost as sweet as themselves to look at until the autumn, when everything is to make place for more tea-roses.

Elizabeth and her German Garden by Von Arnim, Elizabeth View in context

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