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  • adjective Without frontiers.

Etymologies

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frontier +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Divided we stand;: The crisis of a frontierless democracy, by Walter Prescott Webb

    Whistleblowers Seek to Reform ACORN 2008

  • Divided we stand;: The crisis of a frontierless democracy, by Walter Prescott Webb

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: NYTimes Editorial: The Acorn Story 2008

  • A small, undersized horse with knobby knees, a large appetite and foul disposition is disowned and abandoned only to find itself in the hands of three discouraged men in search of a new way of life – a disheartened owner, a frontierless cowboy, and a troubled jockey – all of whom put their heart and soul into making Seabiscuit a champion race horse and the underdog favorite of a generation.

    Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2003

  • They want to keep the attention of the user limited to their territories, and will not allow a frontierless surfing and simultaneous use.

    02/01/2004 - 03/01/2004 Torill 2004

  • They want to keep the attention of the user limited to their territories, and will not allow a frontierless surfing and simultaneous use.

    Archive 2004-02-01 Torill 2004

  • Still, the people supporting In the Hall of Ma'at are optimistic that this frontierless new cyber world will finally provide the opportunity for scientific reason to triumph over pseudoscientific speculation.

    Pseudoscience in Cyberspace 2003

  • JURKOWITZ: You cannot get away with on television and a cable news network the kind of sort of hot frontierless talk that Michael Savage spews out over the radio out of San Francisco every night on 300 stations.

    CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2003 2003

  • It would be very interesting to speculate on what the human imagination is going to do with a frontierless world where it must seek its inspiration in uniformity rather than variety, in sameness rather than contrast, in safety rather than peril, in probing the harmless nuances of the known rather than the thundering uncertainties of unknown seas or continents.

    The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin 1996

  • It would be very interesting to speculate on what the human imagination is going to do with a frontierless world where it must seek its inspiration in uniformity rather than variety, in sameness rather than contrast, in safety rather than peril, in probing the harmless nuances of the known rather than the thundering uncertainties of unknown seas or continents.

    The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin 1996

  • We also need diversity in our faculty and student body more closely matching our multiprismed society and our increasingly frontierless world.

    Can We Have Equality of Opportunity, and Excellence, Too? 1988

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